From Naperville Community Television, Sept. 23, 2017: With plenty to see and do, everyone was busy with interactive demonstrations, family-friendly experiments, and even special shows with Mr. Freeze. View NCT’s two-minute video.
In the news
From The Beacon-News, Sept. 23, 2017: Batavia’s Fermilab celebrated its 50th anniversary Saturday by holding the biggest open house it’s had in two decades.
From Science, Sept. 20, 2017: UK pledges $88 million to gigantic U.S. particle physics experiment — DUNE.
From Nature, Sept. 5, 2017: Maps of the cosmic microwave background have become iconic representations of the early universe. But when the Dark Energy Survey collaboration unveiled the analysis of their first year of data last month, many felt that a new era had started.
From How Stuff Works, Aug. 25, 2017: DUNE will entail shooting a powerful beam of neutrinos through Earth’s mantle and perhaps unlocking some of our universe’s greatest mysteries in the process.
From Forbes, Aug. 29, 2017: Latest results from the five year long Dark Energy Survey puts the Standard Model of our universe under the most precise test yet.
From USA Today, Aug. 9, 2017: Fermilab’s Bonnie Fleming and Chris Mossey talk about DUNE, LBNF, and how we can answers to questions about our universe may depend on once again striking gold in a mine buried a mile underground in rural South Dakota.
From Naperville Sun, Aug. 11, 2017: Fermilab’s Sandra Charles and Mario Lucero work with Metea Dean Jennifer Rowe to ignite a passion for the STEM fields among traditionally underserved populations.
From BBC News, Aug. 3, 2017: Dark Energy Survey researchers have released the most accurate map ever produced of the dark matter in our universe.
From Quanta, Aug. 3, 2017: Fermilab scientists Josh Frieman and Scott Dodelson talk about the latest major result from the Dark Energy Survey, which could signal the start of a new era of cosmology.