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KERA Think: Tiny Particles, Big Impact with Physicist Thomas Coan

KERA public radio 90.1 hosted physicist Thomas E. Coan on Krys Boyd‘s “Think” program Oct. 29. Coan and Boyd discussed neutrinos, one of the most elusive particles in the Standard Model’s “particle zoo.” Listen to the Podcast  

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North Texas High School Students Discovered New Stars During Summer Physics Program

KERA News Instead of a summer job at the mall, two North Texas high schoolers spent their time off with a telescope. And it was time well spent. For these astrophysicists-in-training, stargazing over the summer led to five unusual discoveries: new stars. In some respects, Dominik Fritz and Jason Barton are typical high-schoolers. Jason’s haircut […]

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Experimental particle physicist Jodi Cooley hunts for dark matter

Dark matter makes up much of the universe, and surrounds us all like an invisible soup. Physicists have hunted dark matter particles for decades, but they continue to elude observation.   Now a major international experiment aimed at discovering dark matter could be constructed and operational by 2018, according to the consortium of scientists on […]

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Light from huge explosion 12 billion years ago reaches Earth

Known as a gamma-ray burst, the intense light captured in the night sky resulted from one of the biggest and hottest explosions in the universe, occurring shortly after the Big Bang.Intense light from the enormous explosion of a star more than 12 billion years ago—shortly after the Big Bang—recently reached Earth and was visible in […]

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SMU Daily Campus: Navigating neutrinos — Professor studies most elusive particle in the universe

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Search for dark matter covers new ground with CDMS experiment in Minnesota

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Year of the Faculty- Stephen Sekula

  Stephen Sekula, Assistant Professor of Experimental Particle Physics is featured on Dedman College’s website.  READ MORE

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NOvA experiment glimpses neutrinos, one of nature’s most abundant, and elusive particles

Ghostly particles that constantly bombard us can offer clues to the early moments of our universe Scientists hunting one of nature’s most elusive, yet abundant, elementary particles announced today they’ve succeeded in their first efforts to glimpse neutrinos using a detector in Minnesota. READ MORE

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SMU physicists celebrate Nobel Prize for discovery of Higgs boson “god particle”

  SMU’s experimental physics group played a pivotal role in discovering the Higgs boson — the particle that proves the theory for which two scientists have received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. READ MORE