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‘Tis the season for friends, family and funny physics fill-ins. Here at Symmetry, we’ve taken a page from Mad Libs, those short stories designed to trick you into learning parts of speech, and created some science-themed Lab Libs (to trick you into learning science). Simply fill in the blanks to create original science stories.

The upcoming Short-Baseline Near Detector at Fermilab continues scientists’ search for evidence of a hypothetical particle, the sterile neutrino. Collaborators around the world are participating in the detector’s construction. Its first critical components recently arrived from partner institutions. When complete, SBND will be the third and final detector in Fermilab’s Short-Baseline Neutrino Program.

How do you calibrate a probe that is sealed inside a giant liquid-argon neutrino detector?

Predicted by Einstein and discovered in 1979, gravitational lensing helps astrophysicists understand the evolving shape of the universe.

When he isn’t working on magnets for the Large Hadron Collider, Parker loves talking to people about technical topics in everyday language.

Representatives from industry joined physicists to present software and share ideas about the future of quantum science and technology.

Their efforts apply research from multiple disciplines to hunt for dark matter – in particular, the much sought-after axion.

Attendance at an outreach event led to a career at Fermilab, a place Lucero describes as a “little wonderful world.”