Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Welcomes First Baby Bison of the Year
Fermilab is known for cutting-edge experiments, particle physics research—and an adorable herd of bison. On April 26, baby bison season officially began at the lab….
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Are We on the Brink of a New Age of Scientific Discovery?
In 2001 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, a facility used for research in nuclear and high-energy physics, scientists experimenting with a…
Muon g-2 Particle Accelerator Experiment Results Are Not Explained by Our Current Theories of Physics
The first results from the Muon g-2 experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have revealed that fundamental particles called muons…
Physicists Build a Quantum Bit That Can Search for Dark Matter
Qubits offer a fast, highly reliable way to solve one of the great mysteries in physics. Some kind of invisible material is out there affecting…
Testing Our Fundamental Understanding of the Universe: Muon G-2 Experiment Hints at Mysterious New Physics
Scientists are testing our fundamental understanding of the universe, and there’s much more to discover. What do touch screens, radiation therapy and shrink wrap have…
Evidence of Exciting New Physics From U.S. Department of Energy’s Muon G-2 Experiment – “Today Is an Extraordinary Day”
The long-awaited first results from the Muon g-2 experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory show fundamental particles called muons behaving…
The Mystery of the Muon’s Magnetism
A super-precise experiment at Fermilab is carefully analyzing every detail of the muon’s magnetic moment. Modern physics is full of the sort of twisty, puzzle-within-a-puzzle…
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…
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…