The third detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes provides a new test of the theory of general relativity.
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How did the proton, photon and other particles get their names?
The Heavy Photon Search at Jefferson Lab is looking for a hypothetical particle from a hidden “dark sector.”
From The Courier-News, May 23, 2017: A bison that Fermilab gave up for adoption by the Elgin Zoo now has a name.
From ChicagoInno, May 23, 2017: As part of the UChicago Innovation Fest, a panel of female scientists from UChicago, Fermilab and Argonne discussed the future of women in STEM.
Protons are colliding once again in the Large Hadron Collider.
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.
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.
At a recent workshop on blind analysis, researchers discussed how to keep their expectations out of their results.
Linac 4 will replace an older accelerator as the first step in the complex that includes the LHC.