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The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory invites buffalo fans to visit its herd of about 50 buffalo, including 16 young animals born since April 12.

A dramatic rescue re-enactment-extricating an accident victim from a car crash and evacuating the victim by helicopter-is one of the main attractions for Daughters and Sons to Work Day (DASTOW) at the Department of Energy’s Fermilab on Thursday, April 22, 2004 at 10:00 a.m.

On March 31, 2004, the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will host the next Virtual Ask-a-Scientist from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Central Time.

At the Needs Assessment & Developers Workshop for Grid Techniques in Introductory Physics Classroom Projects, held at Florida International University on January 28 and 29, educators, researchers, and scientists met to discuss how students of introductory physics might tap into real physics data sets around the world and collaborate on its analysis over the Internet.

The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will host the next Virtual Ask-a-Scientist on January 29, 2004 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Central Time.

The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will host the next Virtual Ask-a-Scientist on December 18, 2003 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Central Time.

Using detectors chilled to near absolute zero, from a vantage point half a mile below ground, physicists of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search today (November 12) announced the launch of a quest that could lead to solving two mysteries that may turn out to be one and the same: the identity of the dark matter that pervades the universe, and the existence of supersymmetric particles predicted by particle physics theory.

The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will host the next Virtual Ask-a-Scientist on November 18, 2003 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Central Time.

With the completion of its hundredth surface detector, the Pierre Auger Observatory, under construction in Argentina, this week became the largest cosmic-ray air shower array in the world. Managed by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the Pierre Auger project so far encompasses a 70-square-mile array of detectors that are tracking the most violent-and perhaps most puzzling- processes in the entire universe.

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are offering a special “Antimatter Sunday” on November 2, at 1 p.m.