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Working with special materials is nothing new at the village machine shop. Often, machinists document learned “recipes” for working with special materials. In the right hands, these unpublished works of expertise are worth more than gold.

As part of a class on design thinking, a graduate student turned her research topic into an art installation resembling a giant disco ball.

After 40 years of service at Fermilab, Jim Patrick will retire on Sept. 7. Patrick started his career as a graduate student at UC Berkeley in the Mark II detector group at the SPEAR and PEP e+e- colliders at SLAC. He began as a postdoc at Fermilab in 1982 in Alvin Tollestrup's group in CDF. He worked on the CDF data acquisition system, becoming the .... More

Nicola Valori, an Italian Summer Intern, precisely aligns the optics of a laser magnetometer for the Muon g-2 experiment.

Excavation of the large caverns for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility is in full swing. Over a third of the whopping 800,000 tons that need to be extracted from a mile underground have been removed. When finished, the underground facility will cover an area about the size of eight soccer fields and provide space for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is an international experiment to unlock the mysteries of neutrinos. DUNE will be installed in the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility, under construction in the United States. One mile underground, at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, the excavation of the large LBNF caverns for the DUNE far detectors is in full swing. When complete, the LBNF underground facility will cover an area about the size of eight soccer fields.