The CMB spectrum measured by the Planck satellite points to a perfectly boring universe: the vanilla ΛCDM cosmological model, no hint of n...

In theory, the algorithm for detecting dark matter is straightforward: 1) wait until a dark matter particle hits a nucleus in your detector ...

Today we saw the first physics results from the AMS-02 collaboration. AMS is a particle detector attached to the International Space Station...

Higgs with the corpus delicti. Unbelievable but true.  It happened last Saturday but only now credible reports are beginning to emerge. ...

The greatest hits of the passing month in HEP were the Higgs update from the LHC and the release cosmological results from Planck. But winte...

Here's the 2013 rendition of the cosmological Mona Lisa,  or, in our jargon, the multipole expansion of the Cosmic Microwave Backgrou...

Everything's clear now.  The most important Higgs search channels have been updated by both ATLAS and CMS (the only interesting channe...