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Fermilab has Family Open House down to a science
From The Beacon-News, Feb. 1, 2016: A crowd of at least 2,500 people got the chance to view the facilities as well as exhibits at Fermilab’s Family Open House, which included physics projects offered by students living in neighboring communities including St. Charles, Naperville and Aurora.
Our imperfect vacuum
The emptiest parts of the universe aren’t so empty after all.
Former Fermilab Director Michael Witherell named new head of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
University of California, Jan. 21, 2016: The University of California Board of Regents on Jan. 21 approved Michael Witherell, vice chancellor for research at UC Santa Barbara, as director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Witherell was director of Fermilab from 1999 to 2005.
Is the neutrino its own antiparticle?
The mysterious particle could hold the key to why matter won out over antimatter in the early universe.
From bosons to Bigfoot: six science mysteries that might be solved in 2016
IFLScience, Jan. 4, 2016: From the origin of life to the fate of the universe, there’s plenty scientists simply don’t know. But they are making progress. 2015 has been a great year for science. So what will happen in 2016?
LHC photon readings hint at Higgs boson’s big brother, but it’s too early to tell
GeekWire, Jan. 6, 2016: The Higgs boson is the biggest find of the century in particle physics, but for the past few weeks, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider have been considering whether there’s a mystery that’s even bigger. Or at least more massive. Fermilab’s Don Lincoln is quoted in this article.
Video: How to wrangle a particle
Learn some particle accelerator basics from a Fermilab accelerator operator.