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Scientists are using a plastic robot and hair-thin pieces of metal to ready a magnet that will hunt for new physics.

Higgs bosons should mass-produce bottom quarks. So why is it so hard to see it happening?

From Nature, June 22, 2016: Fermilab theorist Andreas Kronfeld comments in this article on scaled-up quantum computers, which use a technique would help address problems that classical computers can’t handle.

A theory of everything would unite the four forces of nature, but is such a thing possible?

From The Beacon News, June 13, 2016: Fermilab usually invites the public indoors to attend expos and science demonstrations, but Sunday afternoon was a day to be outside for the ninth annual Family Outdoor Fair.

Project Poltergeist led to the discovery of the ghostly particle. Sixty years later, scientists are confronted with more neutrino mysteries than ever before.

From NOVA, May 31, 2016: Inside the Fermilab particle accelerator, then Harvard undergraduate Sarah Demers, now a professor at Yale University, used an instrument to look on as protons collided at near light-speed with their opposites—antiprotons—and the resulting particle shards decayed after the cataclysmic blast.

Neutrinos are a puzzling mixture of three flavors and three masses. Scientists want to measure it down to the last drop.

From SLAC, June 1, 2016: Fermilab is one of the collaborating groups preparing to build an ultrasensitive ‘eye’ for an elusive form of matter.

Quantum physics says everything is made of particles, but what does that actually mean?