A joint Fermilab/SLAC publication
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09/29/14

CERN turns 60

CERN celebrates six decades of peaceful collaboration for science.

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09/22/14

Cosmic dust proves prevalent

Space dust accounts for at least some of the possible signal of cosmic inflation the BICEP2 experiment announced in March. How much remains to be seen.

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09/18/14

Pursuit of dark matter progresses at AMS

A possible sign of dark matter will eventually become clear, according to promising signs from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment.

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08/27/14

First measurement of sun’s real-time energy

The Borexino neutrino experiment in Italy found that the sun releases the same amount of energy today as it did 100,000 years ago.

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08/26/14

Holographic universe experiment begins

The Holometer experiment will test whether our universe is coded into 2-D packets many trillion times smaller than an atom.

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08/18/14

Dark Energy Survey kicks off second season

In September, DES will make data collected in its first season freely available to researchers.

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08/12/14

Rare isotopes facility underway at Michigan State

In July 140 truckloads of concrete arrived at Michigan State University to begin construction of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.

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08/08/14

Open access to the universe

A team of scientists generated a giant cosmic simulation—and now they're giving it away.

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07/11/14

US reveals its next generation of dark matter experiments

Together, the three experiments will search for a variety of types of dark matter particles.

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06/24/14

Massive neutrino detector moved into place

The 30-ton MicroBooNE detector, the cornerstone of Fermilab’s short-baseline neutrino program, will see neutrinos this year.

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