Brown University animates science communication
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Ten weird things you (probably) didn’t know about the Milky Way
From National Geographic, Jan. 12, 2018: The Dark Energy Survey announced that it detected 11 streamers of stars, some of which have been given Aboriginal names.
The Milky Way ate 11 other galaxies as its grew, groundbreaking dark energy survey finds
From Daily Mail, Jan. 14, 2018: Preliminary results from the Dark Energy survey have revealed a stunning look at the remains of 11 smaller galaxies that have been devoured by our own, reducing them to stellar streams.
Neural networks for neutrinos
- California
- CERN
- computing
- Indiana
- Indiana University
- Large Hadron Collider
- LHC
- Minnesota
- neutrino
- Ohio
- SLAC
- University of California Irvine
- University of Cincinnati
Scientists are using cutting-edge machine-learning techniques to analyze physics data.
Dark Energy Survey releases first three years of data
- astrophysics
- Chile
- Dark Energy Survey
- Illinois
- Ohio
- Ohio State University
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
From Sky and Telescope, Jan. 17, 2018: Free, detailed information on 400 million astronomical objects, anybody? Just visit the website of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) – it’s there for the taking.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry makes first visit to Fermilab
From Naperville Community Television, Jan. 14, 2018: The former governor and two-time presidential hopeful recently toured Fermilab and spoke to a packed auditorium of scientists who work at the national laboratory – a laboratory Perry called a jewel of the United States.
The biggest little detectors
- Brazil
- collaboration
- Colorado
- Colorado State University
- Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
- DUNE
- France
- internationality
- LBNF
- Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility
- ProtoDUNE
- Spain
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Wisconsin
The ProtoDUNE detectors for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment are behemoths in their own right.
UK builds vital component of global neutrino experiment
From the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council, Jan. 16, 2018: A UK team has just completed their first prototype anode plane assembly, the largest component of the DUNE detector, to be used in the ProtoDUNE detector at CERN.
Mystery dark matter may be ordinary neutrons that have decayed
From New Scientist, Jan. 11, 2018: Fermilab scientist Dan Hooper is quoted in this piece about the possible origins of a potential source of dark matter in the cosmos.