by Susan Keown | Feb 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
Mara Johnson-Groh won the institutional category in the 2022 NSWA Best of the Northwest Awards for her story on neutrinos in Symmetry Magazine. The judges wrote that her piece “did a great job of translating an incredibly tricky subject”: the second-most common...
by Susan Keown | Nov 6, 2022 | ScienceWire
For Wired, K.C. Cole’s (@kccole314) essay, “The Unnatural Future of Physics,” explores the surprising connections between the Higgs boson, inclusivity in science and improvisational group rapping. Physicists still can’t explain why the Higgs is 100 million billion...
by Susan Keown | Jun 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
Despite its ubiquity, dark matter has eluded all attempts to detect it directly. Mara Johnson-Groh writes in Symmetry Magazine about a new “paleodetector” proposal to analyze ancient rock samples for traces of dark matter. She explains how even a tiny sample of a...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
Neon is usually such a quiet element. Don’t be fooled, Rachel Berkowitz explains in Physics Today (subscription required). The nobel gas has a wild side. It may drive stellar explosions that lead stars to become supernovas, avoiding the usual gravitational collapse...
by Chris Tachibana | Dec 2, 2015 | ScienceWire
Wayt Gibbs, contributing editor to Scientific American, kicks off a special physics and astronomy issue that has stories on time travel, the origin of the universe, and human intelligence. Wayt (@WaytGibbs) will blow you away with his own piece on two invisible black...
