The universe exists because matter and antimatter are not good friends.| Latest from Live Science
Sometimes, when I write a post about AI, I’ve been sitting on an idea for a long time. I’ve talked to experts, I’ve tried to understand the math, I’ve honed my points and cleared away clutter. This is not one of those times. The ideas in this post almost certainly have something deeply wrong with […]| 4 gravitons
Recently, the South Pole Telescope’s SPT-3G collaboration released new measurements of the cosmic microwave background, the leftover light from the formation of the first atoms. By measuring …| 4 gravitons
Three of my science journalism pieces went up last week! (This is a total coincidence. One piece was a general explainer “held in reserve” for a nice slot in the schedule, one was a piece I drafted in February, while the third I worked on in May. In journalism, things take as long as they […]| 4 gravitons
You may have heard that the muon g-2 problem has been solved. Muons are electrons’ heavier cousins. As spinning charged particles, they are magnetic, the strength of that magnetism characterized by a number denoted “g”. If you were to guess this number from classical physics alone, you’d conclude it should be 2, but quantum mechanics […]| 4 gravitons
Summer is conference season for academics, and this week held my old sub-field’s big yearly conference, called Amplitudes. This year, it was in Seoul at Seoul National University, the first t…| 4 gravitons
In this lab we will learn about the basics of low and mid-energy radiation-matter interaction with the help of Geant4, the Geant4 binding for Python (g4py), and of course, our beloved Docker. This lab may fall into the recent (and praiseworthy) trend related to the so called reproducible research and Open Educational Resources as a Service. This PWD/Docker-based experience has been carried out with huge success at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR), as described in this research pap...| Play with Docker classroom
It sounds like science fiction to say there’s invisible, undetectable stuff all around us, and it doesn’t help that it has the spooky name of dark matter. But there’s plenty of evidence that this material is very real. So what exactly is dark matter? How do we know it’s there? And how are…| New Atlas
How machine learning tools help fundamental science| arogozhnikov.github.io
Predictions of the Standard Model of particle physics, improved by accounting for two key details, are shown to agree in detail with data| Of Particular Significance
Science can be thought of as a series of maps of nature, striving to be ever more complete, as models and theories evolve.| Big Think
From slithering snakes to falling cats, here's how animals negotiate the laws of physics and use them to their advantage.| Big Think
A particle in a collapsing well is doomed, but a wavicle in such a well will escape. This fact has enormous implications for atomic and particle physics.| Of Particular Significance
From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.| Big Think
For over a decade, I studied scattering amplitudes, the formulas particle physicists use to find the probability that particles collide, or scatter, in different ways. I went to Amplitudes, the fie…| 4 gravitons