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…
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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…
Astrophysicists Discover a Pulsar that Varies in the Amount of Gamma-Ray Radiation it Emits
Using data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, researchers have discovered a pulsar that varies in the amount of gamma-ray radiation it emits. Astrophysicists studying…
Fermi Makes First-Ever Gamma-Ray Measurements of a Gravitational Lens
Using NASA’s Fermi observatory, researchers have made the first-ever gamma-ray measurements of a gravitational lens, opening new avenues for research and providing a new way…
The Dark Energy Survey Officially Begins
After 10 years of planning, building and testing, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) has officially begun. Tonight, as the sun sinks below the horizon, the…
Discovery of Rare Decay Puts Standard Model to Stringent Test
Researchers from the CMS and LHCb experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider presented measurements of the decay of a Bs (pronounced B-sub-s) particle into two…
Dark Matter Search Results from CDMS II
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) collaboration recently presented its blind-analysis dark matter search results from data taken with silicon detectors during CDMS II operation…
NOvA Neutrino Detector Records First 3D Data
Using a completed section of the NOvA neutrino detector, scientists have begun collecting data from cosmic rays. What will soon be the most powerful neutrino…
Dark Energy Camera Captures its First Images
Located on a mountaintop in Chile, the newly-constructed Dark Energy Camera is the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created and has captured and recorded its…
Final Results on the Higgs Particle from Tevatron
Two days before the announcement of the latest Higgs-search results from the Large Hadron Collider, scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations have found their…