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Busenitz & Piepke’s KamLAND collaboration awarded Breakthrough Prize for discovering neutrino oscillations

Posted on November 15, 2015 - news feature, physics

This story also appeared in Nature and Breakthrough Prize.

Alice in Wonderland meets Albert Einstein: Irwin, Johnson, & White observe a cosmic collision in feline form

Posted on November 15, 2015 - astronomy, news feature, physics

This story also appeared in Gemini, Chandra, NASA, Wired, Daily Mail, Astronomy Now, Digg, phys.org, and Mashable.

GR100: Heino Falcke (Radboud U.) presents GR centennial lecture on “Black Hole Horizons” — video

Posted on November 5, 2015 - news feature, physics

GR100: Robert Wald (U. Chicago) presents GR centennial lecture on “The Formulation of General Relativity” — video

Posted on October 27, 2015 - news feature, physics

Jimmy Irwin & collaborators observe star ripped apart by black hole

Posted on October 15, 2015 - astronomy, news feature, physics

This story also appeared in Daily Mail, Tech Times, and the Tuscaloosa News.

Rumerio & Cooper featured in Fermilab Today for CMS leptoquark constraints

Posted on September 15, 2015 - news feature, physics

IceCube Observatory detects most energetic neutrino ever found (>2.6 PeV)

Posted on August 15, 2015 - astronomy, news feature, physics

New research agreement established with TDK

Posted on July 15, 2015 - news feature, physics

This story also appeared on ABC 33/40 Birmingham.

CMS Collaboration at CERN LHC announces 1st results of 13 TeV collisions

Posted on July 15, 2015 - news feature, physics

Large Hadron Collider achieves record collision energy of 13 TeV

Posted on June 15, 2015 - news feature, physics

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