Another year wiser
In honor of Fermilab’s upcoming 50th birthday, Symmetry presents physics birthday cards.
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A tale of three cities
An enormous neutrino detector named ICARUS unites physics labs in Italy, Switzerland and the United States.
At LIGO, three’s a trend
The third detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes provides a new test of the theory of general relativity.
A brief etymology of particle physics
How did the proton, photon and other particles get their names?
First results from search for a dark light
The Heavy Photon Search at Jefferson Lab is looking for a hypothetical particle from a hidden “dark sector.”
Friends of Lords Park Zoo announces baby bison’s name
From The Courier-News, May 23, 2017: A bison that Fermilab gave up for adoption by the Elgin Zoo now has a name.
The founding of Fermilab
From CERN Courier, May 19, 2017: Former Fermilab archivist and historian Adrienne Kolb recounts how, 50 years ago, U.S. physicists established a new laboratory and with it a new approach to carrying out frontier research in high-energy physics.
Fermilab names Genevan artist-in-residence
From the Kane County Chronicle, May 17, 2017: Geneva resident Jim Jenkins has been chosen as Fermilab’s third artist-in-residence, and has big plans for his tenure.
The facts and nothing but the facts
At a recent workshop on blind analysis, researchers discussed how to keep their expectations out of their results.