Putting to good use: Old lab equipment goes to new science
Some older lab instruments may have outlived their usefulness in Fermilab experiments, but that doesn’t mean they can’t live on in other science projects.
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Scientific Linux: Created for physics, now used in medicine
Did you know that imaging scanners at the hospital next door could be running the same operating system as Fermilab’s particle accelerators and experiments?
#AskSymmetry Twitter chat with Anne Schukraft
See Fermilab physicist Anne Schukraft’s answers to readers’ questions about neutrinos.
Wizardly neutrinos
Why can a neutrino pass through solid objects? Watch the four-minute, Harry Potter-inspired explanation.
One minute with Jerry Zimmerman, engineering physicist
Jerry Zimmerman, known to many as the beloved Mr. Freeze, is a jack of all trades at Fermilab.
Next-gen dark matter detector in a race to finish line
- Berkeley Lab
- Brown University
- California
- China
- dark matter
- Illinois
- Italy
- LZ
- New York
- Northwestern University
- Portugal
- Rhode Island
- Sanford Lab
- Sanford Underground Research Facility
- SLAC
- South Dakota
- South Korea
- United Kingdom
Berkeley Lab is leading the construction of a mile-deep experiment that seeks to solve a science mystery.
Road trip science
The Escaramujo Project delivered detector technology by van to eight universities in Latin America.
This month in Fermilab history: February
As we enter the second month of Fermilab’s 50th year, we look back on Robert Wilson assuming the lab’s first directorship and revisit the lab’s first experiment, along with other memorable milestones.
Changing hands: Saturday Morning Physics directors pass the torch
Since its inception in 1980 by then-Fermilab Director Leon Lederman, Saturday Morning Physics has been one of the most popular outreach initiatives at Fermilab.