Subodh Patil
My Dad Once Told Me the World Was 100 Years Old
His teasing provoked me to understand the origins of time.
How I Escaped My Troubles Through Science
My life in theoretical physics took a fateful turn after 9/11.
A Breakthrough in Measuring the Building Blocks of Nature
An artistic rendering of the quarks and gluons that make up a proton.Illustration by D. Dominguez / CERN In a recent experiment done at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, in Germany, physicist Alexey Grinin and his colleagues came a step closer to resolving one of the more significant puzzles to have arisen in […]
The Black Sheep of Black Holes
This potential member of the cosmic zoo may explain a lot about how the cosmos is structured.
7 Major Experiments That Still Haven’t Found What They’re Looking For
Being an experimental scientist can sometimes seem like a thankless task. You may be used to reading headlines about experiments that end up making great discoveries, but less is heard about the (often heroic) efforts of experimentalists that have yet to detect or observe what they set out to. Some of these efforts have spanned […]
Listen to the Large Hadron Collider’s Weird, Whale-Like Sounds
To refer to the Large Hadron Collider merely as the world’s largest machine, or the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, would be to engage in prosaic understatement—the Collider is nothing less than a scientific and engineering wonder of the world. Nominally an underground ring 27 kilometers in circumference, the Collider is tasked with accelerating, in […]
