For experimental physicists, the latest measurement of the muon is the best of times. For theorists there's still work to do.
At first glance, helping those on the other side of a conflict seems like an act of compassion and progress. Yet new research from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows that even seemingly well-intentioned initiatives ...
Shannon McCoole ran one of the world's largest dark web child abuse forums for around three years in the early 2010s. The forum provided a secure online space in which those interested in abusing children could exchange images, ...
University faculty are expected to have confidence in the classroom. However, the pressures of life in academia can often lead to a sense of self-doubt—commonly known as impostor syndrome—despite objective success.
It's almost become expected that many space telescopes and probes can have "extended missions." Both Voyagers are still sending data back 40+ years after their five-year primary mission ended. But figuring out what to do ...
For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland's Helheim Glacier. Their long-running survey reveals that Helheim's massive calving events don't behave the way scientists once ...
Even though we can explore the universe with great precision, there is still a lot we don't know, according to Ulf Danielsson, professor of theoretical physics at Uppsala University. Besides doing research, he is keen to ...
On July 4, 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland announced with great fanfare that they had successfully detected the Higgs boson, the manifestation of the mechanism that gives some elementary ...
Biologists often form deep bonds with the species they study. For some, that relationship begins early in their careers and shapes decades of research. The connection can be personal, even affectionate, but it can also create ...
Every year, the Taurid meteor shower lights up the night sky from late October through early November. Sometimes called the "Halloween fireballs," they are named for the constellation Taurus—the bull—from which the meteors ...
