Plans for a new accelerator laboratory began in April 1963. Subsequent Aprils brought the completion of the Central Laboratory Building and the installation of the final Main Ring magnet.
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From The Onion: April 1, 2017: CHICAGO — Two University of Chicago atomic physicists unveiled what they are calling their “most hilarious work to date”: an oversize novelty atom that measures “a ridiculously huge” 8.2 x 10-10 meters in diameter.
Urban Sketchers holds monthly sketch crawls, as they’re called. Their mission is to “show the world, one drawing at a time.”
From Inverse, March 9, 2017: In the latest issue of the Justice League-Power Rangers crossover comic, superheroes gather at the mouth of what seems to be the LHC to discuss how to use it to jump across universes. A Vanderbilt University scientist and others believe LHC collisions could produce the Higgs singlet, which had the power to travel back and forth in time.
Particle physics is a dance between theory and experiment.
Laura Fields looks forward to supporting MINERvA’s early-career researchers and to being a good role model for women in the collaboration
This month U.S. scientists embedded sophisticated new instruments in the heart of a Large Hadron Collider experiment.
At Fermilab, she’s an engineer that’s helping with a critical part of the Mu2e experiment. Outside Fermilab, she’s a rocker.
Meet Hernán Quintana Godoy, the scientist who made Chile central to international astronomy.
With 6,800 acres of natural habitat, Fermilab gets help from dedicated citizens who help maintain a landscape where native species flourish.