Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center recently joined an international team in shattering the world network speed record.
Batavia, Ill.—“The Late Show with Leon Lederman” is one of many highlights of a 12-hour live Webcast produced by the European laboratory CERN, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermilab and other partners, including physics laboratories, science museums and technology partners.
Scientists of the Pierre Auger Observatory, a project to discover the origins of rare and mysterious ultra-high energy cosmic rays, began a celebration today (November 10) in Malargüe, Argentina, to mark the progress on installation of the Observatory’s detectors on the Argentina Pampas, and the presentation of the first physics results.
cientists of the Pierre Auger Observatory, a project to study the highest-energy cosmic rays, will hold a celebration to mark the first physics results and progress on the nearly-completed detector array in Malargüe, Argentina, from November 9 to November 12, 2005.
Science literacy is a critical skill in a world of constantly accelerating technology, and the Department of Energy’s Fermilab Education Office is marking Illinois State Library Family Reading Day with a science-based Family Literacy Experience for Grades K-8 on Thursday, November 17, 2005.
Continuing its long-term prairie reconstruction project, the Department of Energy’s Fermilab again invites neighbors and friends to help harvest prairie flower seeds.
Some of the hottest topics in the field of physics today, ranging from “Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe,” to “The Warpings of Spacetime” and “The Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics,” will energize the World Year of Physics Symposium for Students and Teachers, to be held on Saturday, October 8, 2005 in Ramsey Auditorium at the Department of Energy’s Fermilab.
Preparing for an onslaught of data to be processed and distributed in the upcoming years, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and at the California Institute of Technology successfully tested a new ultrafast data transfer connection developed by the Office of Science of the Department of Energy.
The Education Office of the Department of Energy’s Fermilab greets the new school year with another complete program of classroom presentations to celebrate the World Year of Physics, marking the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s “Miraculous Year.”
Fermilab Director Pier Oddone, who took office on July 1, will be the guest speaker at the lab’s Ask-a-Scientist program on Sunday, August 7, at 1 p.m.