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Fermi uses gamma rays to unearth clues about “empty” space

The team working on the Large Area Telescope has discovered that most gamma rays detected by LAT cannot be attributed to individual point sources. Continue reading

Listening for the sound of science

Ever wonder what physics sounds like? Composer and network engineer Domenico Vicinanza recently created a musical score that mimics the tracks of subatomic particles. Continue reading

Two proposed linear collider programs to be joined under new governance

The world’s two most mature proposals for a collider complementary to the Large Hadron Collider are joining collaborative forces. The two proposed electron-positron collider projects, the Compact Linear Collider Study and the International Linear Col... Continue reading

Tevatron experiment confirms LHC discovery of Chi-b (P3) particle

The DZero experiment at Fermilab’s Tevatron collider has confirmed the discovery of a new particle from an experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. In December, scientists on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC announced that they had unearthed in t... Continue reading

LHC physics data taking gets underway at new record collision energy of 8 TeV

At just after midnight in Geneva, operators brought stable beams of protons into collisions at the record-breaking energy of 8 TeV — 4 TeV per beam — for the first time. This marked the beginning of the LHC experiments’ data-taking fo... Continue reading

Physicists mobilize to rescue U.S. neutrino experiment

Neutrino physicists in the U.S. have begun to regroup after a disappointing setback last week, when they learned the Department of Energy would not support the budget of a major proposed experiment. The silver lining, as they see it, is that they have ... Continue reading

Korean experiment confirms groundbreaking neutrino measurement

Hot on the heels of the Daya Bay experiment's completion of one of the most difficult measurements in neutrino physics, a Korean experiment has produced its own measurement confirming the earlier results. Continue reading

April 2012 issue of symmetry available

We hear ya. In response to requests from a number of readers, we're bringing back the downloadable, printable pdf version of symmetry with this issue. Continue reading