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A 50-foot ring topped with white insulation sits attached to wires, pipes, and other electrical components in a…
Jan 23
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We drove past the perfect-circle frozen pond delineating the Booster—the second in a sequence of Fermilab’s particle…
Mar 20 2019
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Construction began last week on a new particle accelerator at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. The…
Dec 18 2017
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A million Russian artillery shells helped scientists discover the Higgs boson. And all over the world, remnants of…
Mar 6 2017
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You might flee from words like “quarks,” “relativity,” and “joule,” but you shouldn’t have to, and neither should a…
Mar 31 2016
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Fermilab outside Chicago will soon begin its Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), and what it hopes to…
Feb 25 2016
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Fermilab’s Tevatron collider officially retired in 2011 after a long and glorious history of scientific discovery.…
Dec 4 2015
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Sep 25 2015
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Apr 8 2015
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The Tevatron collider—the world’s second most powerful particle accelerator—was shut down in 2011. Now, from beyond…
Oct 8 2014
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It may not possess the sense of overwhelming grandeur that CERN can muster, but Fermilab's new 500-mile long…
Aug 26 2014
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Although it sounds entirely like something dreamed up in a smoke-filled dorm room, whether the entire universe is…
Feb 1 2014
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The Department of Energy's Fermilab is building a gargantuan detector to examine uncharged subatomic neutrinos that…
Sep 24 2013
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Given how rarely neutrinos interact with other elementary particles, they're notoriously difficult to study and…
Aug 21 2013
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Author James Rollins has been compared to Michael Crichton, and his latest book The Eye of God includes biohacking,…
Jul 29 2013
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Just because Fermilab shut off its famous Tevartron back in 2011 doesn't mean the entire facility closed down with…
Mar 1 2012
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While the Large Hadron Collider is looking for the Higgs boson, we're on the verge of two huge antimatter-related…
Oct 1 2011
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The Tevatron shut down yesterday. Before its duties were taken up by the the Large Hadron Collider, it accelerated…
Sep 30 2011
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When Fermilab's Tevatron came online in 1983, it was the most powerful particle accelerator in the world. Since…
Jul 25 2011
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Once again, there's excitement in the physics community about the possible discovery of the Higgs boson. But this…