Saturday Morning Physics goes virtual
Fermilab’s popular outreach program for high school students, started in 1980, takes full advantage of modern technology to reach a broader audience. Recordings now are available online.
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Hundreds of hadrons
Hadrons count among their number the familiar protons and neutrons that make up our atoms, but they are much more than that.
Four new events: Fermilab Arts and Lectures At Home
The Fermilab Arts and Lecture Series launches a new set of science talks so you can learn from the comfort of your home.
CMS collaboration publishes 1,000th paper
On June 19, scientists at the CMS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider published their 1,000th paper. The monumental achievement reflects an incomparable contribution to humanity’s understanding of the universe — and it’s just the beginning.
Crews create a blast to take the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment to the next stage
- Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
- DUNE
- LBNF
- Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility
- neutrino
- Sanford Underground Research Facility
- South Dakota
Construction workers have carried out the first underground blasting for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility, which will provide the space, infrastructure and particle beam for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. This prep work paves the way for removing more than 800,000 tons of rock to make space for the gigantic DUNE detector a mile underground.
Three Fermilab scientists receive DOE Early Career Research Awards
The Department of Energy’s Office of Science has selected three Fermilab scientists to receive the 2020 DOE Early Career Research Award, now in its 11th year. The prestigious award is designed to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during the crucial early years, when many scientists do their most formative work.
Neutrino 2020 starts today
The biggest conference in neutrino physics kicks off on June 22, with two weeks of talks dedicated to one intriguing particle.
One minute with Dave Burk, senior technical specialist
From fixing up furniture as a kid to testing particle accelerator components at the lab and woodworking in his garage, Dave Burk has a knack for solving problems with his hands.
Neutrino 2020 kicks off June 22
The 29th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics brings together thousands of researchers for the latest developments in the field.
The stories a muon could tell
The discovery of the muon originally confounded physicists. Today international experiments are using the previously perplexing particle to gain a new understanding of our world.