The ATLAS Collaboration has released last week the results of a careful analysis of a large dataset of proton-proton collisions acquired during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider. This is a…

One of the most suprising results of the "Machine Learning for Jets" (but really, for particle physics in general) workshop I attended in New York City two weeks ago was the outcome of a challenge…

The third "Machine Learning for Jets" workshop is ongoing these days at the Kimmel centre of New York University, a nice venue overlooking Washington Square park in downtown Manhattan. I came to…

Majorana fermions, particles that act as their own antiparticle and were first hypothesized by Italian physicist Ettore Majorana in 1937, have not been detected after all. A 2017 report of the…

There is dark energy as sure as there is light in the world. It just may not be a simple scalar multiplier in our equations as we had hoped it would be. Dark energy is what the scientific consensus…

What hurts you is not what you don't know, but those mistaken assumptions which "everyone knows to be true".[The following text is courtesy Andras Kovacs - T.D.] This post is related to the book…

I am currently in Bangkok, where the final 2019 meeting of the CMS collaboration started today. The meeting was inaugurated this morning with an official visit of Her Royal Highness Princess…

Last month the Museum of Natural History of Venice hosted, in the last room of the exhibit called "room of the cetaceans" (where a large skeleton of a whale hangs from the ceiling), an exhibit of…

Is there a fifth force of Nature, beyond the four we know about ? This question has been around ever since it was understood that 1 - electric charges attract and repel, and influence one…

[I extorted the text below from my friend and colleague Andrea Giammanco, who has been one of the driving forces behind a new scientific result at the crossroads of nuclear and particle physics - TD…