Rencontres de Moriond

An architectural installation at Fermilab, the high-energy particle physics research centre, in Illinois. Credit: recommend group/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Hopes for ‘New Physics’ Pave the Road to Rencontres

Vasudevan Mukunth 10/03/2018

The Rencontres de Moriond provides a snapshot of the...

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Infinite in All Directions: From Copernicus to Clockwork, the Role of Math in Completeness

Vasudevan Mukunth 03/04/2017

Infinite in All Directions is The Wire‘s science newsletter....

Clockwork theory will have to face down a host of challenges before it can be declared a definitive success. Credit: gaborfejes/pixabay

New Math Technique Mops up Higgs Boson’s Mass Problem Like Clockwork

Vasudevan Mukunth 31/03/2017

At the Rencontres de Moriond, CERN physicists presented a...

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Next-Gen Telescope Set to Be the Next Big Thing in Gamma-Ray Astronomy

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/03/2017

The Cherenkov Telescope Array, which India has invested in,...

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Start of LHC’s 2016 Run Suffused With Hopes of a New Particle

Vasudevan Mukunth 16/05/2016

This year is when we might discover another foundational...

A computer's reconstruction of the diphoton event, indicating a particle weighing around 750 GeV/c2, observed by the ATLAS detector. Credit: ATLAS/CERN

Hopes for a New Particle at the LHC Offset By Call for More Data

Vasudevan Mukunth 16/12/2015

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations reported subtle hints of...