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This summer, physics students were offered a unique opportunity to study cosmic rays during the total solar eclipse.

Gravitational waves take the top spot in Symmetry writer Mike Perricone’s yearly round-up of popular science books related to physics and astrophysics.

From Physics World, Dec. 11, 2017: The top breakthrough goes to the international team of astronomers and astrophysicists that ushered in a new era of astronomy by making the first ever multimessenger observation involving gravitational waves. Pierre Auger is also on the list.

Wenzhao Wei and Dan Rederth are the first to earn physics Ph.D.s within the state of South Dakota.

Have a question for Fermilab? Tune in to a Fermilab frequency over the next two weeks.

From CERN, November 2017: It has been a little over seven (and a half) years since the LHC started delivering collisions to CMS for physics analysis, and just a few days ago we published our 700th research paper.

From Engadget, Nov. 29, 2017: Fermilab’s Dark Energy Survey is featured in this story and video about the search for dark matter.

From Rapid City Journal, Nov. 29, 2017: For more than five years, Ross Shaft crews have been stripping out old steel and lacing, cleaning out decades of debris, adding new ground support and installing new steel to prepare the shaft for its future role in world-leading science. On Oct. 12, all that hard work paid off when the team, which worked its way down from the surface, reached a major milestone: the 4850 Level. Deputy Director Chris Mossey weighs in.

In the Large Hadron Collider, protons become new particles, which become energy and light, which become data.

Sandra Miarecki went from Air Force pilot to neutrino physicist.