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A collaborative ecosystem

04/23/24

Emily Ayshford

Physicists work with computer scientists in academia and industry to advance machine learning.

Photo at the artist’s reception for Jenkins’ show, a visitor peers through the magnifying glass of a sculpture

02/23/18

Fusing Fermilab physics with art

Fermilab’s 2017 artist-in-residence, Jim Jenkins, melds pieces of physics experiments into his creations.

Illustration of Higgs boson ice cream truck being visited by the particle that isn't there

02/20/18

The secret life of Higgs bosons

Are these mass-giving particles hanging out with dark matter?

Illustration of heart radiating gamma particles at the center of the image: Magnetic field lines, Higgs particles, and neutrinos

02/13/18

Show your affection with physics valentines

When it comes to love, sometimes you have to say it with science.

02/09/18

Subatomic Smackdown

When it comes to talent, versatility and the power to change the world, which atomic particle is the champ? Read what our four contenders have to say—then you decide.

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02/06/18

Learning to speak quantum

Particle physicists are studying ways to harness the power of the quantum realm to further their research.

01/30/18

Sterile neutrino sleuths

Meet the detectors of Fermilab’s Short-Baseline Neutrino Program, hunting for signs of a possible fourth type of neutrino.

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01/25/18

Brown University animates science communication

The SciToons program pairs students with different levels of scientific expertise to create animated science explainers.

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01/23/18

Neural networks for neutrinos

Scientists are using cutting-edge machine-learning techniques to analyze physics data.

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