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03/28/22
Physics Magazine

Seeking diversity when faced with adversity

Michael Ramsey-Musolf’s challenging experiences as an out gay physicist started in the 1980s and led him to become a firm advocate for sexual and gender minorities in the academic world.

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Machine learning and experiment

04/25/24
Sarah Charley

For more than 20 years in experimental particle physics and astrophysics, machine learning has been accelerating the pace of science, helping scientists tackle problems of greater and greater complexity.

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12/12/17

Physics books of 2017

Gravitational waves take the top spot in Symmetry writer Mike Perricone’s yearly round-up of popular science books related to physics and astrophysics.

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12/07/17

The PhD pioneers

Wenzhao Wei and Dan Rederth are the first to earn physics PhDs within the state of South Dakota.

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12/05/17

Radio lab

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

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11/28/17

LHC data: how it’s made

In the Large Hadron Collider, protons become new particles, which become energy and light, which become data.

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