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The Escaramujo Project delivered detector technology by van to eight universities in Latin America.

From SLAC, Jan. 31, 2017: A full kilometer of SLAC’s historic linac has been stripped of all its equipment. Over the next two years it will be re-equipped with new technology to power an X-ray laser, LCLS-II. Fermilab and Jefferson Lab are building the cryomodules for its superconducting portion.

A result from the LHCb experiment shows what could be the first evidence of matter and antimatter baryons behaving differently.

From the Naperville Sun, Jan. 26, 2017: A gravity collider, gravity accelerator, shape shooter, ramps and curves machine, and a mini linear accelerator were on loan to Graham Elementary School three days this week from Fermilab.

TIM and other mechanical friends tackle jobs humans shouldn’t.

From the INSPIRE blog, Jan. 23, 2017: INSPIRE’s list of the 40 most highly cited papers during 2016 is out, and five are Fermilab papers. The number goes up if you include CMS papers. Have a look in this blog post by Fermilab’s Heath O’Connell and SLAC’s Michael Peskin.

Neutron stars have earned their share of superlatives since their discovery in 1967.

Measuring with high precision, physicists at CERN found a property of antiprotons perfectly mirrored that of protons.

How can we measure the worth of scientific knowledge? Economic analysts give it a shot.

A group known for making music with everyday objects recently got their hands on some extraordinary props.