A New Map of the Universe, Painted With Cosmic Neutrinos
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Of the 100 trillion neutrinos that pass through you every second, most come from the...
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A Novel Type of Neural Network Comes to the Aid of Big Physics
Graham tried tweaking the CNN approach so that the kernel would only be placed on 3-by-3 sections of the image that contain at least one...
A Crucial Particle Physics Computer Program Risks Obsolescence
Recently, I watched a fellow particle physicist talks about a calculation he had pushed to a new height of precision. His tool? A 1980s-era computer...
How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything
Most of the quantum fields that fill our universe have one, and only one, preferred state, in which they’ll remain for eternity. Most, but not...