The idea that science skills are innate and great discoveries are made only by “lone geniuses” is losing traction in STEM.

PIP-II, a particle accelerator project for generating intense neutrino beams, has achieved an important milestone.

From CNN, July 12, 2018: Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln discusses the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which was launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Its extended goal is to identify approximately 20,000 planets around nearby star systems.

Through an initiative that seeks to strengthen the global scientist network, European researchers contribute to the Mu2e muon experiment and Short-Baseline Neutrino Program at Fermilab.

From Gizmodo, July 11, 2018: Physicist Brian Cox gives a shout-out to Muon g-2.

From Physics World, July 10, 2018: Fermilab scientist Dan Hooper comments on new research that lends further support to the idea that a detection of surprisingly strong absorption by primordial hydrogen gas, reported earlier this year, could be evidence of dark matter.

Bowring’s work at the frontier of dark matter research earns him a 2018 Early Career Research Award.

From Mashable, July 12, 2018: Josh Frieman is mentioned in this article on the IceCube experiment, which caught sight of a neutrino sent into space by a black hole, known as a blazar, marking the first detection of its kind in history.

From WDCB’s First Light, July 8, 2018: In this 20-minute audio story, WDCB interviews Fermilab user and University of Chicago scientist David Schmitz about the search for a fourth neutrino.

Machine learning will become an even more important tool when scientists upgrade to the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider.