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We drove past the perfect-circle frozen pond delineating the Booster—the second in a sequence of Fermilab’s particle…

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Fermilab outside Chicago will soon begin its Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), and what it hopes to…

Fermilab’s Tevatron collider officially retired in 2011 after a long and glorious history of scientific discovery.…

A controversial experiment at Fermilab designed to hunt for signs that our universe may really be a hologram has…

Last year, a massive, 17-ton, 52-foot wide electromagnet was successfully shipped from Long Island to Illinois. This…

The Tevatron collider—the world’s second most powerful particle accelerator—was shut down in 2011. Now, from beyond…

It may not possess the sense of overwhelming grandeur that CERN can muster, but Fermilab's new 500-mile long…

Although it sounds entirely like something dreamed up in a smoke-filled dorm room, whether the entire universe is…

The Department of Energy's Fermilab is building a gargantuan detector to examine uncharged subatomic neutrinos that…

Given how rarely neutrinos interact with other elementary particles, they're notoriously difficult to study and…

Author James Rollins has been compared to Michael Crichton, and his latest book The Eye of God includes biohacking,…

Just because Fermilab shut off its famous Tevartron back in 2011 doesn't mean the entire facility closed down with…

While the Large Hadron Collider is looking for the Higgs boson, we're on the verge of two huge antimatter-related…

The Tevatron shut down yesterday. Before its duties were taken up by the the Large Hadron Collider, it accelerated…

When Fermilab's Tevatron came online in 1983, it was the most powerful particle accelerator in the world. Since…

Once again, there's excitement in the physics community about the possible discovery of the Higgs boson. But this…