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…
Scientists work to shed light on Standard Model of particle physics
…this number, testing the g-factor through experiment is an effective way to test the theory,” said Simon Corrodi, a postdoctoral appointee in Argonne’s High Energy Physics Division. “There was a…
Jump into Computer Science Education Week
…host a number of activities to highlight The Department of Energy’s efforts, including increasing access to computer science education, building computational literacy, and growing the cyber workforce of the future….
The big questions: Josh Frieman on dark energy
…the nature of dark energy at the national laboratories and how the Office of Science’s High Energy Physics program has been at the vanguard of a number of cosmic surveys….
UK to play vital role in creating the worldβs most powerful neutrino beam
…the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the Daresbury Laboratory, as well as supporting U.K. research at a number of international research facilities including CERN, Fermilab, the ESO telescopes in Chile and…