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Batavia, Ill—Due to heightened security measures at the Department of Energy’s Fermilab, the autumn prairie harvest scheduled for Saturday, September 29 on the site has been postponed indefinitely.

Officials at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today (September 13) that they have canceled the scheduled Arts Series Opening Night events for Saturday evening, September 15.

A new exhibit, “Pulse: Accelerator Science in Medicine” opened this week at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Physicists and computer scientists at the Department of Energy’s Fermilab can stake a larger claim on the future of high-energy physics-and on the next generation of computing-thanks to their part in the first-ever awards in DOE’s Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Program (SciDAC), announced today (August 14) in Washington, D.C. by Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham.

Scientists from the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today (July 25) that for the first time they have made data collected by a high-energy physics experiment available to any scientist who wants to use it.

A conference of presidents from this nation’s leading undergraduate institutions will reveal that a generous mix of quality teaching with quality research is the formula for building successful careers in science.

Local teachers learn science-teaching techniques at Fermilab

Imagine the journey a single atom would take from the Big Bang through the creation of the universe, on to the beginnings of life on Earth and then beyond our demise…Physicist Lawrence M. Krauss, author of The Physics of Star Trek, has imagined just such a journey—and, as chairman of the Department of Physics at Cleveland’s Case Western Reserve University, he has the science to back his vision.

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Leon Lederman, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1988 and author of “The God Particle,” joins a host of distinguished science authors for a Science Book Fair at Explore Book Sellers in Aspen, on Monday, July 9 at 4 p.m.