NPR’s Short Wave host spoke with Fermilab Cosmologist Brian Nord about what dark energy could be and what it implies about the end of our universe.

Fermilab Cosmologist Alex Drlica-Wagner explains recent research charge-coupled devices placed on the SOAR telescope in Chile called Skipper CCDs. Skipper CCDs hold immense potential beyond observing the cosmos including medical imaging and radioisotope detection.

A close collaboration of physicists, astronomers, and engineers, including Fermilab researchers, obtained the first astronomical spectrum using skipper charge-coupled devices using an instrument on the 4.1-meter Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope in Chile.

Xiao Luo, a professor at UC Santa Barbara, was acknowledged by the Sloan Foundation for her work on MicroBooNE, the Short Baseline Near Detector and DUNE.