Fundamental physics

Join us for five days of ultrafast science from April 17 to 21.

Two astrophysicists and a theoretical physicist discuss how the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will probe the nature of dark matter and dark energy by taking an unprecedentedly enormous scan of the sky.

Astrophysicists Eric Charles and Mattia Di Mauro discuss the surprising glow of our neighbor galaxy.

Detectors long used to look at the cosmos are now part of X-ray experiments here on Earth.

Why can a neutrino pass through solid objects?

Advance your romance with science.

Construction has officially launched for the LZ next-generation dark matter experiment.

Think you can do better than the Symmetry staff? Send us your poems!

Public lecture presented by Eli Rykoff

Neutron stars have earned their share of superlatives since their discovery in 1967.

How can we measure the worth of scientific knowledge? Economic analysts give it a shot.

Most experiments searching for mysterious dark matter require massive colliders, but Stanford physicist and SLAC collaborator Peter Graham advocates a different, less costly approach.