Press releases

High-Performance Computing and Communications Organizations Pool Capabilities to Support Vast Bandwidth Needs for Particle Physics and Other Applications

Scientists of the Pierre Auger Collaboration announced today (Nov. 8) that active galactic nuclei are the most likely candidate for the source of the highest-energy cosmic rays that hit Earth.

Restoring a native prairie and recycling material are just two examples of the environmentally friendly activities run by the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley announced today (Oct. 2, 2007) that Fermilab in Batavia produced the seventh most important scientific achievement in the six-county Chicago region.

Scientists of the Pierre Auger Collaboration will begin today (July 3) the public release of one percent of the cosmic-ray events recorded by the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina.

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have announced the observation of the cascade b baryon-again.

Members of the public are invited to become “citizen scientists” and help ecologists track prairie restoration at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with the Prairie Quadrat Program.

Three-quark particle contains one quark from each family.

Kathleen Stanley of Warrenville, a graduating senior at Rosary High School in Aurora who hopes to major in chemical engineering in college, has been named the recipient of the Fermilab Science Award and scholarship, sponsored by the Fermilab Friends for Science Education and the Franklin Fund.

In celebration of Particle Accelerator Day this weekend in Illinois, two U.S. Department of Energy Laboratories, Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, have planned events at their respective accelerator facilities.