What could be more daunting than searching for an invisible particle — one so elusive that physicists had no evidence of its existence until 1956? This is just the kind of challenge that Ohio…
Numerous experiments have been dedicated to the search for dark matter, but the strange substance remains frustratingly elusive. Annika Peter, assistant professor, physics, astronomy,…
Paul Sutter, community outreach coordinator for the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, explains one of the biggest puzzles in modern physics.
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In Prof. John Beacom’s introductory physics course, a student made a short video of him doing a lecture demonstration. This was uploaded to a Chinese social-media site, where it went viral,…
Astronomy professor Jennifer Johnson created a version of the periodic table that color codes the elements by their cosmic origins.
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John Beacom, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Director of the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP) has been named the second…
(Originally posted to https://artsandsciences.osu.edu/news-events Autumn 2018 edition)
Dangling from a balloon high above Antarctica, a particle detector has spotted something that standard physics is at a loss to explain.
John Beacom, ASC Distinguished Professor, physics,…
