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05/05/20

Physics community designs simplified ventilator

The Mechanical Ventilator Milano, or MVM, went from concept through approval by the US Food and Drug Administration in a little over a month.

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Muons: Emblems of discovery

01/13/26

Diana Kwon

Once a surprise to physicists, these particles are useful tools inside and outside the realm of particle physics.

10/01/11

Cyclotron patent

On January 26, 1932, Ernest Lawrence applied for a patent on the cyclotron.

10/01/11

Lego Belle II

Particle detectors help physicists study the fundamental building blocks of matter. Now building blocks can help people study detectors.

10/01/11

A deck of particles

Want to play with subatomic particles? You could go to work at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, RHIC—or you could play a new card game.

10/01/11

Solving for X

A proposed new accelerator complex at Fermilab would open up the Intensity Frontier of particle physics.

10/01/11

Old detectors never die

BaBar completed its experimental run in 2008, but its parts will live on.

10/01/11

Nicole Ackerman thought she would always be a particle physicistuntil 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.

10/01/11

Now playing: Reality. In 3D

Could your life be a 3D movie? A new Fermilab experiment aims to put on the special glasses and find out.

10/01/11

The geekiest engagement ever

Dave Mosher wanted his wedding proposal to go off with a bang. A big bang.

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