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Women’s History Month talk free and open to the public

he Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland has reached record-breaking energies, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to close up shop at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

This year’s Family Open House at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will take place from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 21. The Open House offers family-style hands-on activities, science shows and Q&A sessions with scientists.

Particle beams are once again zooming around the world’s most powerful particle accelerator—the Large Hadron Collider—located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. On November 20 at 4:00 p.m. EST, a clockwise circulating beam was established in the LHC’s 17-mile ring.

Officials at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are seeking nominations from the local community for members to serve on a new Community Advisory Board.

Congressman Bill Foster will announce today that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will provide Fermilab with an additional $60.2 million to support research toward next-generation particle accelerators and preliminary design for a future neutrino experiment.

The world’s largest computing grid has passed its most comprehensive tests to date in anticipation of the restart of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider.

At a recent physics seminar at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab physicist Pat Lukens of the CDF experiment announced the observation of a new particle, the Omega-sub-b.

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will offer special “Antimatter Tours” on Saturday, July 11, and August 8, starting at 10:00 a.m.