In the news

From Newsweek, May 16, 2018: In a new paper, a team of scientists describe how it uncovered a new space object in 2014 using data from the Dark Energy Survey.

From Quanta, May 15, 2018: Thanks to Dark Energy Survey data, astronomers have spotted a distant world whose orbit is so odd that it is likely to have been shepherded by Planet Nine.

From Gizmodo, May 18: Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey spotted a celestial object that, according to a new paper published recently on the arXiv, is the “most extreme Trans-Neptunian object found to date.”

From Kane County Chronicle, May 18, 2018: See photos from the May 12 visit to Fermilab by five members of Congress.

From Daily Herald, May 15, 2018: In honor of Arbor Day, Fermilab in Batavia recently held a volunteer workday with the goal of creating a shrub land habitat for rare birds.

From NBC News, May 8, 2018: DUNE co-spokesperson Ed Blucher and Fermilab Director Nigel Lockyer are quoted in NBC’s overview of neutrino physics and DUNE.

From University of Chicago, May 8, 2018: A number of breakthroughs have made it possible for scientists to encode and manipulate information in quantum systems. Scientists at UChicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering,which formed a hub with Fermilab and Argonne called the Chicago Quantum Exchange, are fleshing out the fundamental rules of controlling such systems.

From Chicago Tribune, May 8, 2018: This one-minute video of the Fermilab bison shows them grazing and relaxing in the pasture.

From WBBM Newsradio, May 2, 2018: Roads and Grounds’s Dave Shemanske appears in this 44-second segment on the Fermilab bison herd.

From Suburban Chronicle, May 3, 2018: Bison herdsman Cleo Garcia is quoted in this article on the newest addition to the bison herd at Fermilab.