The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel’s report, released today, recommends a strategic path forward for US particle physics.

The Planck mission released a first glimpse of data that, later this year, will test BICEP2’s discovery of gravitational waves.

In a few years, scientists will come out with a new map of a third of the sky, one that will go deeper and bring that depth into sharper focus than any survey has yet achieved. It will pinpoint 25 million galaxies and quasars, pulling back the curtains on the history of the universe’s expansion over more than half of the age of the universe.

SLAC recently hosted a forward-looking group of theoretical and experimental particle physicists. Their purpose: Follow the science to determine what a post-LHC collider could teach us about the universe.