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03/15/19
The Beacon-News

Fermilab breaks ground on its 'new heart'

The Proton Improvement Plan II, known as PIP-II, is a brand new leading-edge superconducting linear accelerator.

03/12/19
Discover

Why Fermilab is making a neutrino detector 800 miles long

Researchers hope an underground experiment will reveal an elusive particle.

03/08/19
Ars Technica

Physicists are decoding math-y secrets of knitting to make bespoke materials

Different stitch types determine stretchiness, shape of final knitted product.

03/07/19

Japan defers ILC decision

In their latest meeting with scientists, the Japanese government declined to stake a claim to hosting the ILC.

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‘Entangle’ exhibit fuels imagination with physics

03/19/19
By Evelyn Lamb

A Swedish university tapped the founding director of CERN’s artist-in-residence program to curate a new art exhibit inspired by physics.

An artist's concept of plasma acceleration
03/14/19

The potential of plasma wakefield acceleration

Scientists around the world are testing ways to further boost the power of particle accelerators while drastically shrinking their size.

An illustration of Sibusiso Biyela with her laptop
03/12/19

Decolonizing science through sci comm

Science writer Sibusiso Biyela aims to bring science back to South Africa’s Zulu communities.

An illustration of the FASER experiment
03/05/19

A tiny new experiment at the LHC

The story of the latest experiment approved for installation at the Large Hadron Collider starts with a theorist and a question about dark matter.

Physics Slang
02/26/19

10 words that mean something different to physicists

Some of this science sounds awfully familiar.

Overhead view of artists kneeling on a blue surface and creating an image of bubble chamber tracks with white sand
02/22/19

The bubble chamber sand mandala

One sprinkle of sand at a time, two artists recreated the moment a particle passed through a detector 30 years earlier.

An illustration of the LSST
02/19/19

An astronomical data challenge

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will manage unprecedented volumes of data produced each night.

Simulation of a dwarf galaxy
02/14/19

Taking a collider to the dark energy problem

Every second, the universe grows a little bigger. Scientists are using the LHC to try to find out why.

Photo of people picking up pieces of cake from a table
02/12/19

A taste of particle physics

For physicists Katy Grimm and Katharine Leney, science is a piece of cake.

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