QuarkNet program receives $6.1 million NSF award to advance science education
The University of Notre Dame has received a five-year, $6.1 million award from the National Science Foundation to support the nationwide QuarkNet program, which has inspired teachers and students alike for 15 years.
World’s most powerful digital camera opens eye, records first images in hunt for dark energy
Eight billion years ago, rays of light from distant galaxies began their long journey to Earth. That ancient starlight has now found its way to a mountaintop in Chile, where the newly constructed Dark Energy Camera, the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created, has captured and recorded it for the first time.
Crews complete first block of North America’s most advanced neutrino experiment
Today, technicians in Minnesota will begin to position the first block of a detector that will be part of the largest, most advanced neutrino experiment in North America.
Pier Oddone to step down as Fermilab director
The Fermi Research Alliance (FRA) Board of Directors, which manages and operates Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, announced today that Fermilab Director Pier Oddone has decided to retire after eight years at the helm of America’s leading particle physics laboratory.
Search for Higgs boson at Large Hadron Collider reveals new particle
Physicists on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider announced today that they have observed a new particle. Whether the particle has the properties of the predicted Higgs boson remains to be seen.
Tevatron scientists announce their final results on the Higgs particle
After more than 10 years of gathering and analyzing data produced by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Tevatron collider, scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations have found their strongest indication to date for the long-sought Higgs particle.
Scientists discover that Milky Way was struck some 100 million years ago, still rings like a bell
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a large spiral galaxy surrounded by dozens of smaller satellite galaxies.
$27 million award bolsters research computing grid
Every day researchers add another sea of data to an ocean of knowledge on the world around us — billions on top of billions of measurements, images and observations of the tiniest subatomic particles up to the movement of planets and stars.
Fermilab invites public to view baby buffalo
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory welcomes the public to view its herd of American bison, commonly known as buffalo.
Fermilab experiment announces world’s best measurement of key property of neutrinos
Scientists from the MINOS experiment at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have revealed the world’s most precise measurement of a key parameter that governs the transformation of one type of neutrino to another.