From Nature, April 11, 2017: Fermilab’s Muon g-2 experiment will measure the muon’s magnetic moment with unparalleled precision, perhaps revealing unknown virtual particles.
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From Daily Herald, April 11, 2017: Elgin’s youngest bison has been known only as No. 67 — from the Fermilab auction where she was purchased — and needs a name.
From Nation News, April 9, 2017: Arden Warner is attracting attention to himself and his work as a physicist at Fermilab and to his private exploit developing a nontoxic way to clean up oil spills.
From The Shorthorn, April 19, 2017: University Hall Room 108 was over its 252-person capacity as spectators gathered to listen to Nigel Lockyer, Fermilab director, give his biggest talk about neutrinos.
From SciArt Magazine, April 13, 2017: Fermilab Art Gallery Georgia Schwender showcases the lab’s employee art exhibit.
From Chicagoist, April 6, 2017: Fermilab isn’t just the site of major discoveries about the fabric of reality and a really, really big magnet. It’s also a lovely place in the Western burbs to enjoy a restored slice of the tallgrass prairie that once dominated Illinois.
From Wired, April 5, 2017: For some reason, more matter formed than antimatter just after the Big Bang, and physicists don’t know why. “It’s one of the very biggest mysteries in the universe,” says physicist Don Lincoln of Fermilab.
From Daily Herald, March 19, 2017: Hundreds of kids and their families watched in awe on March 19 as suburban science teachers presented fast-paced demonstrations about electricity during the 30th annual Wonders of Science show at Fermilab in Batavia.
From The Onion: April 1, 2017: CHICAGO — Two University of Chicago atomic physicists unveiled what they are calling their “most hilarious work to date”: an oversize novelty atom that measures “a ridiculously huge” 8.2 x 10-10 meters in diameter.
From Inverse, March 9, 2017: In the latest issue of the Justice League-Power Rangers crossover comic, superheroes gather at the mouth of what seems to be the LHC to discuss how to use it to jump across universes. A Vanderbilt University scientist and others believe LHC collisions could produce the Higgs singlet, which had the power to travel back and forth in time.