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Holiday guests will gravitate toward these physics cookies.

From WDCB News’ The Arts Section, Dec. 11, 2016: Reporter Brian O’Keefe interviews Deputy Director Joe Lykken, Art Gallery Curator Georgia Schwender, and artist Ellen Sandor, Fermilab’s latest artist-in-residence, about reaching the public through the power of visual art in this 10-minute radio piece. The Fermilab segment begins at 15:40.

DeeDee, a potential new dwarf planet at the edge of our solar system, was discovered in one of DES’ many analyses of faraway galaxies.

The first synchrotron radiation source in the Middle East is running tests before its planned 2017 start.

What have scientists learned in five years of studying cosmic rays with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment?

From Forbes, Dec. 2, 2016: The latest search results released by the CMS collaboration rule out two classes of hypothetical particles, gluinos and squarks, below about 1.4 TeV in energy.

Can the same type of technology Facebook uses to recognize faces also recognize particles?

Construction has begun for the CTA, a discovery machine that will study the highest-energy objects and events across the entire sky.

From The Aurora Beacon-News, Dec. 1, 2016: Physics Slam V, had five scientists looking to present physics in a way that was accessible, understandable, entertaining and, well, poetic. Read the article and view the 3-minute video.

Technicians, engineers and scientists have draped the MicroBooNE detector at Fermilab in a shiny new exterior that helps scientists separate cosmic ray signals from neutrino signals.