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Perplexed by gravity? Don’t let it get you down.

From ABC7 News, March 30, 2016 (with video): The Chicago area hosted a special guest Wednesday as Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi toured parts of the city and the suburbs, including Fermilab. His first official visit to Chicago, it was the first stop in a four-day tour of the United States focused on trade issues between the U.S. and Italy.

From The Beacon-News, March 31, 2016: Italian Prime Minister Renzi rolled in to Fermilab on Wednesday with several dozen other Italian citizens to meet with scientists, including some of Italian birth, and tour the campus’ Industrial Center Building.

The center of our galaxy is a busy place. But it might be one of the best sites to hunt for dark matter.

From WDCB, March 22, 2016: Fermilab’s Brian Nord and Martin Murphy talk about the collision of art and science in this nine-minute radio interview.

From BBC News, March 11, 2016: You can look in any direction inside this video of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, including a view of the CMS detector.

Joel Butler will lead the LHC experiment starting in September.

From ars technica, Feb. 29, 2016: Fermilab’s found a brand-new species—the first particle with four flavors of quarks.

From IFL Science, Feb. 27, 2016: Scientists on the DZero experiment have found an incredible new particle that’s part of the exotic family of tetraquarks.

The explanation for some strange experimental results could lie in undiscovered particles called sterile neutrinos.