Author: Danielle Venton

Physicists have high hopes for the LHC's second run.

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It wasn't just big accelerators that made the news in 2015. Small is beautiful too.

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This summer Russian tech billionaire Yuri Milner announced he’ll fund the most extensive sweep yet for radio signals from alien civilizations.

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An experiment based at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, has tested one theory of how the "hologram universe" might work.

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In 2015, physics is standing on a bridge between the old world and the new.

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Physicists working with the world's most powerful particle accelerator presented the first results from the LHC's souped-up, more powerful second run.

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Something is awry in the cosmos. Most of the universe seems to be … essentially, missing.

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Sure, the LHC is impressive. But even bigger machines are in the works.

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A newly-improved Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory began generating data this year, after a $200 million upgrade.

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