From The New York Times, Oct. 3, 2018: Leon Lederman, whose ingenious experiments with particle accelerators deepened science’s understanding of the subatomic world, died early Wednesday in Rexburg, Idaho. He was 96.
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From Wired UK, Oct. 1, 2018: The winning photos in the 2018 Global Physics Photowalk take a sideways look at particle detectors and operating mines.
From Le Scienze, Sept. 21, 2018: Successo del prototipo dell’esperimento DUNE, allestito presso il centro di ricerca ginevrino: sono i primi indizi del passaggio di neutrini nei rivelatori costituiti da enormi serbatoi di argon liquido. È l’inizio di un progetto che porterà alla realizzazione di un apparato sperimentale simile ma 20 volte più grande al FermiLab di Chicago.
From Kane County Chronicle, Sept. 23, 2018: A winning photograph by Ken Wickham of St. Charles taken at Fermilab in Batavia advanced in an international competition.
From The New York Times, Oct. 2, 2018: The Nobel committee recognized the scientists for their work in using light to make miniature tools.
From Udaipur Kiran, Sept. 18, 2018: More than 1,000 scientists and engineers from 32 countries spanning five continents — Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America — are working on the development, design and construction of the DUNE detectors.
From everyeye.it, Sept. 23, 2018: Il più grande rilevatore di neutrini ad argon liquido al mondo ha appena identificato il suo primo neutrino: inizia così la storia del Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
From La Liberté, Sept. 18, 2018: Installé au CERN, le plus grand détecteur de neutrinos à argon liquide au monde vient d’enregistrer ses premières traces de particules. C’est le début d’un nouveau chapitre dans l’histoire de l’expérience internationale DUNE.
From Science News, Sept. 19, 2018: This overview of “three Standard Model challengers” includes the Fermilab Muon g-2 experiment.
From Noticias CIEMAT, Sept. 18, 2018: La colaboración científica de DUNE, donde participan el CIEMAT, el Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), el Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC) y el Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT), cree que los neutrinos pueden tener la respuesta a una de las principales cuestiones de la Física: por qué vivimos en un Universo dominado por la materia.