When an experiment ‘fails’, science may actually win — Manorenjitha Malar Sivanathan
SEPTEMBER 7 — Imagine spending months, perhaps even years, testing an idea. The experiment is carefully designed, samples…
Anthropic’s Latest AI Risk Report Is Full of Agents Behaving Badly
Claude agents are killing rival agents, gaming the system to hide their tracks, and expressing moral concerns. That’s…
ATLAS breaks its own record with new search for double-Higgs production
Producing two Higgs bosons in a single proton-proton collision is among the rarest processes at the LHC. Yet…
NASA wants to light a fire on the moon for the very first time
NASA plans to light a fire on the moon for the very first time — here’s why Step…
ATLAS hunts for a new “soft” signature of the dark sector
The ATLAS Collaboration releases its first dedicated search for soft unclustered energy patterns (SUEPs) – an elusive possible…
World’s slowest experiment: inside century-long wait for a single drop
Some science experiments last a few minutes. Some take years. And then there is the Pitch Drop Experiment,…
ATLAS tackles a new double-Higgs frontier
The ATLAS Experiment is on the hunt for “ttHH production” – an extremely rare process where two top…
Student Captures Cosmic Radiation on Film by Sending Negative to Space
HELIOS II by Tom Liggett. Most of the colors captured here were caused by cosmic radiation that came…
What Does It Look to Take a Photo With Half a Lens?
Viltrox has posted one of the more unusual photography demonstrations on Instagram recently, showing what happens when you…
A new trio: ATLAS finds first evidence of ZZy production
The ATLAS Collaboration reports the first evidence of the simultaneous production of a photon and two neutral Z…
A barge carrying Timmy the humpback whale journeys to the North Sea
BERLIN — A barge carrying a humpback whale that had been stranded in shallow water near Germany since March has…
The World’s Longest-Running Experiment Is Still Teaching Us Physics
The simple experiment setup. Image via Wiki Commons. In 1927, physicist Thomas Parnell poured hot pitch into a…