One minute with Saskia Charity, Muon g-2 postdoc
…you are trying to find a hint of something new by measuring loads of different things, we are trying to measure just one number really accurately and test it against…
From particle physics to hospitals: The U.S. FDA authorizes the Mechanical Ventilator Milano within the scope of the emergency use authorization for COVID-19 ventilators
…relevant scientific communities. Its mechanical design is simple, using a small number of parts to facilitate rapid production. Fermilab scientists volunteered their time to design, test and finalize the MVM….
Civil-engineering work for the major upgrade of the LHC completed
From CERN, Jan. 20, 2023: CERN is celebrating the completion of civil-engineering work for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider. This will improve its performance by increasing the number of particle…
Diversifying the dark matter portfolio
From APS News, July 2018: Scientists are looking down a number of avenues for dark matter. Fermilab’s Daniel Bowring and Dan Hooper discuss the search, and members of SuperCDMS, ADMX…
Fermilab astrophysicist receives 2023 DOE Early Career Research award to build more sensitive detectors to observe distant galaxies
…have more targets. You cannot map the same number of galaxies with the technology being used now, and that’s why the speed should be increased.” By surveying the galaxies from…
Department of Energy awards Fermilab $3.5 million for quantum science
From Kane County Connects, Sept. 3, 2019: As part of a number of grants to national laboratories and universities offered through its QuantISED program, DOE’s recent round of funding to…
The astonishing power of a thunderstorm
…experiment, located in India. Scientists noticed that when a thunderstorm passed over their detector, the number of muons they observed got smaller compared to the rate before the thunderstorm arrived….
White House Office of Technology Policy, National Science Foundation and Department of Energy announce over $1 billion in awards for artificial intelligence and quantum information science research institutes
…$140 million for seven NSF-led AI Research Institutes over five years to accelerate a number of AI R&D areas, such as machine-learning, synthetic manufacturing, precision agriculture and forecasting prediction. The…
Primed for a quantum leap in research
From University of Chicago, May 8, 2018: A number of breakthroughs have made it possible for scientists to encode and manipulate information in quantum systems. Scientists at UChicago’s Institute for…
Spinning new targets for accelerators
…testing methods that increase the number of fiber spin-off points that form at a single time, produce a thicker nanofiber target, and decrease the amount of electricity needed to create…