Category: Symmetry Magazine
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Blowing up high-mass stars with low-mass neutrinos
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Low-mass particles that make high-mass stars go boom Simulations are key to showing how neutrinos help stars go supernova. For Symmetry Magazine: When some stars much more massive than…
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Everything is a particle, but what does that mean?!
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] What is a “particle”? Quantum physics says everything is made of particles, but what does that actually mean? For Symmetry Magazine: “Is he a dot or is he a…
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Are neutrinos their own worst enemies?
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] EXO-200 resumes its underground quest The upgraded experiment aims to discover if neutrinos are their own antiparticles For Symmetry Magazine: Science is often about serendipity: being open to new…
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The GUTsy effort to unify the quantum forces
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] A GUT feeling about physics Scientists want to connect the fundamental forces of nature in one Grand Unified Theory For Symmetry Magazine: The 1970s were a heady time in…
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Some light reading about light
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] As I mentioned before, I’m branching out a bit and writing some listicles for Symmetry Magazine this year. The first covered gravity, and the second covers… light! Eight things…
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Some heavy facts about gravity
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] I’m not generally the type of writer who makes listicles, but I’m producing a few for Symmetry Magazine this year. The first covers the OG of fundamental forces: gravity!…
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A new detector in the hunt for particles and the origin of matter
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Belle II and the matter of antimatter Go inside the new detector looking for why we’re here For Symmetry Magazine: We live in a world full of matter: stars…
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BICEP3: Revenge of the telescope
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Dusting for the fingerprint of inflation with BICEP3 A new experiment at the South Pole picks up where BICEP2 left off For Symmetry Magazine: When researchers with the BICEP2…
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A net for neutrinos at the bottom of the sea
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Casting a net for neutrinos The KM3NeT experiment will catch the elusive particles using the Mediterranean Sea For Symmetry Magazine: Like ordinary telescopes, KM3NeT operates in darkness—but there the…
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Why are neutrino masses so tiny?
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Neutrinos on a seesaw A possible explanation for the lightness of neutrinos could help answer some big questions about the universe. For Symmetry Magazine: Mass is a fundamental property…
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