Accelerator excellence
Fermilab’s Lia Merminga talks to Symmetry about her early experiences in STEM and her drive to solve science’s unanswered questions.
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This new satellite is on a mission straight out of ‘Star Trek’
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.
We asked celeb physicist Brian Cox about flat Earth conspiracies, the multiverse and ghosts
From Gizmodo, July 11, 2018: Physicist Brian Cox gives a shout-out to Muon g-2.
Did dark matter have a chilling effect on the early universe?
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.
For the first time, an elusive ghost particle blasted from deep space is seen on Earth
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.
Fermilab researchers look to confirm new neutrino
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.
Rise of the machines
Machine learning will become an even more important tool when scientists upgrade to the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider.
Neutrino Day: X-treme fun for everyone!
- Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
- DUNE
- LBNF
- Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility
- Sanford Lab
- Sanford Underground Research Facility
- South Dakota
From Sanford Underground Research Facility’s Deep Thoughts, July 17, 2018: Nearly 1,500 people attended activities at Sanford Lab’s free science festival in Lead, South Dakota, breaking the single-day record.
Diversifying the dark matter portfolio
From APS News, July 2018: Scientists are looking down a number of avenues for dark matter. Fermilab’s Daniel Bowring and Dan Hooper discuss the search, and members of SuperCDMS, ADMX and other collaborations are on the hunt.
