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Fermilab recently hosted more than 300 middle school students from 13 schools for a special showing of Hidden Figures and a panel discussion with four Fermilab scientists, including Karl Warburton. This video was played as part of the panel introductions. The goal of the program was to show fifth- to eighth-grade students that entering a STEM field was possible for them – no matter their background. You can read more about the event here: http://news.fnal.gov/2018/02/fermilab… Karl Warburton discusses how every physicist always adds something to the field since every individual approaches the study in a new way. A scientist on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, Warburton draws new information from pictures of simulated events, and each piece, collaboratively sewn together, contributes to our understanding of the universe.

Einstein’s special theory of relativity is notorious for being easy to misuse, with the result that sometimes result in claims of paradoxes. When one digs more carefully into the theory, you find that no such paradoxes actually exist. In this video, Don Lincoln describes a commonly claimed time dilation paradox and shows how to resolve it.

In this 3-minute video, Maurice Ball talks about challenges he faced in his college courses. Overcoming them, he found himself taking on different, surprising and exciting challenges as a Fermilab engineer.

Welcome to the first in a series by Don Lincoln on relativity. In this 12-minute video, he lays out what relativity is all about — not slow-moving clocks and shrinking objects, but instead on … well, watch and see.

The Linac Coherent Light Source at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Laboratory is an X-ray laser that allows scientists to take snapshots of atoms and molecules in motion, revealing fundamental processes in materials, technology and living things. Its strobe-like pulses are just a few millionths of a second long, and a billion times brighter than previous X-ray sources. Fermilab is providing SLAC with 22 cryomodules for the LCLS-II upgrade, which will take X-ray science to the next level, opening the door to a whole new range of studies of the ultrafast and ultrasmall.

One of the ProtoDUNE experiment’s detectors is a single-phase neutrino detector. It will require a number of anode planes to detect the signature of a neutrino interaction in a bath of liquid argon. The University of Wisconsin is fabricating some of these anode planes. This is a glimpse at the process.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Secretary Rick Perry visited the Fermilab site on Jan. 9, 2018. During his visit, he met with scientists and saw much that the lab has to offer: neutrino experiments going on underground, accelerator technology, quantum computing technology, the 50-foot Muon g-2 magnet, the herd of bison and much more.

On Jan. 9, 2018, the U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry visited Fermilab and discussed accelerator technology development, neutrino research, quantum computing and a host of other activities that the lab pursues. He concluded his trip by delivering remarks to Fermilab staff in the packed Ramsey Auditorium and answering audience questions.

Probably the most familiar subject in physics is mass. Basically, it’s the amount of stuff something is made of. However, if you look at it a little more closely, you’ll find that the situation isn’t necessarily so simple. In this video, Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln spends some time explaining how, conceptually speaking at least, there are two kinds of mass: gravitational and inertial and how the relationship between the two has huge consequences on our understanding of the universe.

Former Fermilab Deputy Director Young-Kee Kim was once a CDF experiment postdoc who put her heart and soul into the particle detector. At one point, her tireless efforts brought her work to a brief, soporific standstill.