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Scientists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics for their roles in creating the LIGO experiment.

The national laboratory opened usually inaccessible areas of its campus to thousands of visitors to celebrate 50 years of discovery.

From Naperville Community Television, Sept. 23, 2017: With plenty to see and do, everyone was busy with interactive demonstrations, family-friendly experiments, and even special shows with Mr. Freeze. View NCT’s two-minute video.

From The Beacon-News, Sept. 23, 2017: Batavia’s Fermilab celebrated its 50th anniversary Saturday by holding the biggest open house it’s had in two decades.

As Jordan-based SESAME nears its first experiments, member nations are connecting in new ways.

From Science, Sept. 20, 2017: UK pledges $88 million to gigantic U.S. particle physics experiment — DUNE.

To celebrate a half-century of discovery, Fermilab has been gathering tales of life at the lab.

Astronomers are at the forefront of the fight against light pollution, which can obscure our view of the cosmos.

A humidity and temperature monitor developed for CMS finds a new home in Lebanon.

From Nature, Sept. 5, 2017: Maps of the cosmic microwave background have become iconic representations of the early universe. But when the Dark Energy Survey collaboration unveiled the analysis of their first year of data last month, many felt that a new era had started.