Nigel Lockyer, director of Canada’s TRIUMF laboratory for particle and nuclear physics and a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of British Columbia, has been selected to become the next director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
How do you move a 50-foot-wide, circular electromagnet from Long Island to the Chicago suburbs in one piece without flexing or twisting it? Very, very carefully.
Lecture on post-Higgs physics caps off International Linear Collider event at the laboratory.
What could be better than spending a fun-filled day outdoors and learning about natural science at the same time?
It’s one thing for kids to try to envision particles zipping around underground when learning about the science at Fermilab.
It would be the world’s most ambitious neutrino experiment. And Fermilab wants everybody to know about it, especially its neighbors.
Scientists from 26 institutions around the world are planning a new experiment that could open the doors to new realms of particle physics.
Scientists this week heard their first pops in an experiment that searches for signs of dark matter in the form of tiny bubbles.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory welcomes the public to come see the latest additions to its herd of American bison.
If you have kids between the ages of 7 and 12, you know how hard it can be to get them excited about science from a textbook. Children need science to come to life before their eyes. They need to be wowed and to experience physical phenomena with eyes wide and jaws dropped.