From Physics World, Dec. 11, 2017: The top breakthrough goes to the international team of astronomers and astrophysicists that ushered in a new era of astronomy by making the first ever multimessenger observation involving gravitational waves. Pierre Auger is also on the list.

Wenzhao Wei and Dan Rederth are the first to earn physics Ph.D.s within the state of South Dakota.

The 300 million-electronvolt beam surpasses two key energy goals for accelerator science.

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From CERN, November 2017: It has been a little over seven (and a half) years since the LHC started delivering collisions to CMS for physics analysis, and just a few days ago we published our 700th research paper.

From Engadget, Nov. 29, 2017: Fermilab’s Dark Energy Survey is featured in this story and video about the search for dark matter.

From Rapid City Journal, Nov. 29, 2017: For more than five years, Ross Shaft crews have been stripping out old steel and lacing, cleaning out decades of debris, adding new ground support and installing new steel to prepare the shaft for its future role in world-leading science. On Oct. 12, all that hard work paid off when the team, which worked its way down from the surface, reached a major milestone: the 4850 Level. Deputy Director Chris Mossey weighs in.

In past Decembers the laboratory recognized the importance of its future site, the prairie and its buildings.

Sept. 30, 1979, about 1:45 p.m.: SNAP!! Gerd Hartner, in the bow of his canoe at the race starting position, dipped his paddle in the water, gave a mighty first pull and, to his astonishment, broke it in half.

In the Large Hadron Collider, protons become new particles, which become energy and light, which become data.