New Metamaterial Structures for Studying the Oldest Light in the Universe
The cosmic microwave background, or CMB, is the electromagnetic echo of the Big Bang, radiation that has been traveling through space and time since the…
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Physicists Surprise Discovery: Intracluster Light May Provide a New Way to Measure Dark Matter
A combination of observational data and sophisticated computer simulations have yielded advances in a field of astrophysics that has languished for half a century. The…
Scientists Create Advanced, More Powerful Superconducting Magnet for Next Generation Light Sources
Magnet Designers Look to the Future of Light Sources With New Prototype After more than 15 years of work, scientists at three DOE national laboratories…
Sustained, High-Fidelity Quantum Teleportation Achieved for the First Time
A viable quantum internet — a network in which information stored in qubits is shared over long distances through entanglement — would transform the fields…
Dark Matter Breakthrough Allows Probing Three of the Most Popular Theories, All at the Same Time
Observations of dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way have yielded simultaneous constraints on three popular theories of dark matter. A team of scientists led by…
Large Hadron Collider Detects Evidence of a Rare Higgs Boson Process: God Particle Decaying Into a Pair of Muons
The ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider have seen evidence of a new type of decay not yet observed: the Higgs boson…
New World Record: Fermilab Achieves 14.5-Tesla Field for Accelerator Magnet
The Fermilab magnet team has done it again. After setting a world record for an accelerator magnet in 2019, they have broken it a year…
Huge Blast Deep Beneath Earth’s Surface Kicks Off DUNE Excavation
It started with a blast. On June 23, construction company Kiewit Alberici Joint Venture set off explosives 3,650 feet beneath the surface in Lead, South…
FDA Approval Granted for Simplified Ventilator Design From Particle Physics Community
In a little over a month, a team of physicists and engineers from around the world took a simplified ventilator design from concept all the…
The Cold Eyes of DUNE – Particle Physicists’ Cryogenic “Traps” for Ghostly Particles
How do you detect a particle that has almost no mass, feels only two of the four fundamental forces, and can travel unhindered through solid…
Solving Vexing Problem in Building Quantum Computers With Particle Accelerator Technology
Last year, researchers at Fermilab received over $3.5 million for projects that delve into the burgeoning field of quantum information science. Research funded by the…
ADMX Breakthrough in Axion Dark Matter Detection Technology
New result draws on 30 years of research and development and begins the definitive search for axion particles. Forty years ago, scientists theorized a new…
Dark Energy Survey Reveals 11 Newly Discovered Stellar Streams
At a special session held during the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C., scientists on the Dark Energy Survey (DES) announced today the public…
DES Reveals Most Accurate Measurement of Dark Matter Structure in the Universe
New results from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) reveal the most accurate measurement of dark matter structure in the universe, and support the view that…
MicroBooNE Physics Experiment Detects Its First Neutrino Candidates
MicroBooNE started receiving its very first neutrino beam from the Fermilab Booster accelerator on October 15, 2015. On November 2, 2015, sceiietnsts released the first…
Ten Facts About Supernovae
Here are ten facts about supernovae that you may have not known. Somewhere in the cosmos, a star is reaching the end of its life….
Dark Energy Survey Finds New Dwarf Galaxy Candidates
The Dark Energy Survey has discovered 17 dwarf galaxy candidates in the past six months, leaving scientists to believe that there could be many more…
Dark Energy Survey Reveals Detailed Guide to Spotting Dark Matter
Scientists have created the largest single high definition map of dark matter, helping researchers understand the role that dark matter plays in galaxy formation. Scientists…