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THE Port humanitarian hackathon at CERN brings people from multiple industries together to make the world a better place.

This free event will include talks on the science behind the Star Wars films and the premiere screening of unofficial fan film “Star Wars: Forgotten Realm,” written and directed by Fermilab’s Darren Crawford.

Four physicists discuss Higgs boson research since the discovery.

Powerful survey instruments help us map the sky with incredible precision. But what ensures that the instruments themselves are precisely built?

Physicists and scientific computing experts prepare for an onslaught of petabytes.

From Google Cloud Platform Blog, Nov. 14, 2016: Google Cloud Platform is now a supported provider for HEPCloud, a project launched in June 2015 by Fermilab’s Scientific Computing Division to develop a virtual facility providing a common interface to local clusters, grids, high-performance computers and community and commercial clouds.

From the Aurora Beacon-News, Nov. 10, 2016: Artist Ellen Sandor spent months talking with Fermilab scientists and learning about the ways they study subatomic particles called neutrinos.

Next year, the country’s premier particle physics laboratory celebrates 50 years of discovery and innovation with a huge open house and many other events.

On Friday, Dec. 2, the public and the media will get the chance to see what Fermilab artist-in-residence Ellen Sandor and her (art)ⁿ team have been working on, as her exhibit “Neutrinos in a New Light” opens at the Fermilab Art Gallery with a reception from 5-8 p.m.

Theorists think dark matter was forged in the hot aftermath of the Big Bang.