Read article 'Flying high with silicon photomultipliers'
Silicon photomultipliers offer many advantages over traditional tube devices, but further R&D is needed to understand their performance under radiation damage.
Read article 'Thermonuclear explosions fuel cosmic rays'
Gamma-ray measurements by H.E.S.S. provide a new way to test models of the origin of cosmic rays.
Read article 'LHCb constrains cosmic antimatter production'
Studies of proton-gas collisions at the LHC enable a deeper understanding of the antiproton flux in cosmic rays.
Read article 'Gravitational-wave astronomy turns to AI'
Physicists gathered to discuss machine-learning methods applied to detect signals from gravitational-waves.
Read article 'Exploring the CMB like never before'
With telescopes at the South Pole and in the Chilean Atacama Desert, the newly endorsed CMB-S4 observatory will exceed the capabilities of earlier experiments by more than an order of magnitude.
Read article 'Ruins of ancient star system found within our galaxy'
Despite it being our galactic home, many open questions remain about the origin and evolution of the Milky Way.
Read article 'Webb prepares to eye dark universe'
In addition to studying galaxy formation, the James Webb Space Telescope will deepen our understanding of dark matter and dark energy.
Read article 'Exploring the early universe with gravitational waves'
Theorists and experimentalists met at CERN in October to discuss new detector concepts and theoretical approaches to search for a cosmological gravitational-wave background.
Read article 'How the Sun and stars shine'
Precise measurements of solar neutrinos have enabled the Borexino experiment to definitively observe the two main fusion reactions in stars.
Read article 'The quantum frontier: cold atoms in space'
September workshop targeted a roadmap for extraterrestrial cold-atom experiments to probe the foundations of physics.
