Construction begins on international mega-science experiment to understand neutrinos
…expected to create almost 2,000 jobs throughout South Dakota and a similar number of jobs in Illinois. Institutions in dozens of countries will contribute to the construction of DUNE components….
Mobilizing Brazilian scientists for DUNE
…Latin American countries, scientists took their degrees in Brazilian institutions on themes associated to Fermilab. Today they have a community in their countries. Also, there is a large collaboration of…
Three sky surveys completed in preparation for Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
…(Berkeley Lab), which is the lead institution in the DESI collaboration. “These three imaging surveys totaled 980 nights, which is a pretty big number.” The three imaging surveys for DESI…
Data from antipodal places: First use of CMB polarization to detect gravitational lensing from galaxy clusters
…the South Pole to the Atacama region of Chile, home to the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. The Dark Energy Camera, mounted 2,200 meters above sea level on the 4-meter Blanco…
Where science meets the sacred
Sanford Underground Research Facility is making an effort to build bridges with Native American communities and operate with respect for the sacred land it is built on….
Two Fermilab scientists selected as 2023 APS fellows
The American Physical Society announced the recipients of the 2023 APS Fellowships. Two U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory scientists, Chandrashekhara Bhat and Robert Zwaska, were selected, a…
Powerful new observatory will taste neutrinos’ flavors
From Scientific American, Sept. 22, 2020: The Chinese JUNO experiment will aim to answer a mystery about the particles’ mass. It will be joined by the international Deep Underground Neutrino…
ICARUS neutrino detector installed in new Fermilab home
…at Fermilab, outside Chicago. In July 2017, ICARUS completed its trans-Atlantic trip to the American laboratory. The second of two ICARUS detector modules is lowered into its place in the…
Fermilab scientist Matt Toups elected new co-spokesperson of MicroBooNE
…to be working with him now as co-spokesperson, and we have an exciting time ahead of us.” MicroBooNE is a 170-ton neutrino detector about the size of an American school…
Huge 10.5-billion-year-old cosmic explosion is the most distant supernova ever discovered
From Newsweek, Feb. 21, 2018: DES162nm was first spotted in August 2016 using the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The investigations were part of an international collaboration known as…