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The bottom quark may lead physicists on a path to new discoveries.

The touring Tactile Collider event explores new ways to access Large Hadron Collider science through touch, sound and live interaction.

From Rapid City Journal: March 3, 2018: South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard touts DUNE and its positive economic effects for the state.

From WDCB Radio, March 4, 2018: Fermilab scientist Jason St. John discusses DUNE in this 12-minute radio interview.

What’s it like being a theoretical neutrino physicist working on the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility?

From Astronomy, Feb. 22, 2018: The supernova, dubbed DES16C2nm, was first detected back in August 2016 by the Dark Energy Survey, which is currently mapping several hundred million galaxies in order to learn more about the mysterious force known as dark energy.

When they look for violations of Einstein’s general relativity, physicists deliberately plan experiments to find nothing at all.

From Newsweek, Feb. 21, 2018: DES162nm was first spotted in August 2016 using the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The investigations were part of an international collaboration known as the Dark Energy Survey—a project designed to map hundreds of millions of galaxies in a search for the mysterious force that is thought to be behind the accelerating expansion of the universe.

From Northern Public Radio, Feb. 13, 2018: The U.S. House has passed a measure Tuesday sponsored by a northern Illinois Congressman that increases funding at two federal labs in Illinois.

From Crain’s Chicago Business, Feb. 14, 2018: The U.S. House took a big step toward the next generation of research at Fermilab, authorizing a $1.8 billion project that would shoot subatomic particles from Fermilab’s facility to South Dakota.