A friend for Pluto: Astronomers find new dwarf planet in our solar system
From National Public Radio, Oct. 11, 2016: Scientists using the Dark Energy Camera have discovered a new dwarf planet at the far reaches of our solar system.
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Citizen scientists join search for gravitational waves
A new project pairs volunteers and machine learning to sort through data from LIGO.
Recruiting team geoneutrino
Physicists and geologists are forming a new partnership to study particles from inside the planet.
Hunting the nearly un-huntable
Scientists on two neutrino experiments—the MINOS experiment at Fermilab and the Daya Bay experiment in China—have presented results that limit the places where sterile neutrinos might be hiding.
Congress extends government funding through Dec. 9, punts on science-related legislation
From FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News, Sept. 29, 2016: The bill extends funding for the federal government at last year’s appropriated levels through Dec. 9, or 10 weeks beyond the end of the fiscal year.
Creating the universe in a computer
Computer simulations help cosmologists unlock the mystery of how the universe evolved.
Three who studied unusual states of matter win Nobel Prize in physics
From The New York Times, Oct. 4, 2016: Fermilab congratulates scientists David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz for winning the Nobel Prize for their discoveries in condensed-matter physics.
LHC smashes old collision records
The Large Hadron Collider is now producing about a billion proton-proton collisions per second.
NSF awards $94 million to create four new Science and Technology Centers
From the National Science Foundation, Sept. 26, 2016: The awardees include the Center for Bright Beams at Cornell University, in which Fermilab is a partner. The center’s goal is to make more intense accelerators at a lower cost.