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04/27/20
Fermilab

Fighting COVID with computing

Fermilab, Brookhaven and Open Science Grid—a network of organizations that provides computing services for science research—dedicate computational power to COVID-19 research.

04/16/20
Fermilab

Particle physics at home

If, while spending more time at home, you develop a hankering for more particle physics in your life, look no further. 

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ALICE with one door open

Curiouser and curiouser: a riddle at the ALICE detector

12/09/25
Sarah Charley

In 2023, the ALICE experiment was ready for their best year yet, until a mysterious signal threatened everything. As the LHC wraps up its 2025 lead-ion run, physicists recall how they worked together to solve the puzzle.

10/01/11

A physicist in the cancer lab

Nicole Ackerman thought she would always be a particle physicist—until a newfound interest in biology drew her toward medical imaging. Her research on Cherenkov radiation, the blue glow from charged particles outracing light, could aid development of cancer treatments.

05/01/11

ALICE's tight squeeze

Anyone who has ever tried to move a big piece of furniture through a small door knows a few centimeters can mean the difference between success and failure.

05/01/11

Physics in a cornfield

On a cool September evening in a cornfield south of Chicago, dozens of telescopes turned skyward for one of the largest star parties in the Midwest. At the center, Fermilab astrophysicist Dan Hooper was describing something no telescope can see.

05/01/11

Disaster brings physics family closer

A day after the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, with strong aftershocks still testing surviving buildings, Japanese residents and physicists were offering beds, food, and rides to stranded foreign physicists.

05/01/11

Saint protects European XFEL tunnel

To the sound of a traditional German miners' song, the two tunnel builders were lifted up to a shrine on the wall directly above the giant tunnel boring machine. They gently placed a wooden statue of St. Barbara into the shrine.

Logbook: May 2011
05/01/11

Protein structure

Today, scientists at 22 synchrotron light sources are analyzing protein structures, and the worldwide Protein Data Bank contains the structures of more than 72,000 proteins.

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