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From Live Science, June 18, 2018: Fermilab’s Don Lincoln gives the lowdown on how scientists discovered neutrino oscillation, leading into MiniBooNE’s latest measurement related to the sterile neutrino.

Fermilab was instrumental in founding the SciTech Hands-On Museum 30 years ago.

Breakthroughs in physics sometimes require an assist from the field of mathematics — and vice versa.

From APS Physics, April 2018: Over the last five decades, Fermilab scientists have made some of the most fundamental discoveries in particle physics. But the facility may never have been built had a handful of physicists — chief among them the lab’s first director, Robert R. Wilson — not convinced the U.S. Congress of the project’s value.

From Gizmodo, Dec. 18, 2017: Bob Kephart, Jonathan Lewis, John Peoples and other scientists talk about the reuse of steel from warships in particle physics experiments.

Have a question for Fermilab? Tune in to a Fermilab frequency over the next two weeks.

In past Decembers the laboratory recognized the importance of its future site, the prairie and its buildings.

Sept. 30, 1979, about 1:45 p.m.: SNAP!! Gerd Hartner, in the bow of his canoe at the race starting position, dipped his paddle in the water, gave a mighty first pull and, to his astonishment, broke it in half.

When the power goes out, what’s our first priority?

Fantastical designs elevate physics in works by Fermilab’s first artist.