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05/09/17

CERN unveils new linear accelerator

Linac 4 will replace an older accelerator as the first step in the complex that includes the LHC.

05/02/17

Mystery glow of Milky Way likely not dark matter

According to the Fermi LAT collaboration, the galaxy’s excessive gamma-ray glow likely comes from pulsars, the remains of collapsed ancient stars.

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New results from the CMS experiment put W boson mass mystery to rest

09/17/24

Physicists on the CMS experiment announce the most elaborate mass measurement of a particle that has captivated the physics community for decades.

07/01/05

City-states of science

Tomorrow's particle physics experiments are redrawing the map for scientific collaboration. Although the field has long been accustomed to large groups of scientists, life in the new CERN collaborations will surely be different.

07/01/05

Dance, physics and energy

Robert Wilson, the first director of Fermilab, was both scientist and artist. There are many anecdotes about his interest in and promotion of art at Fermilab. Over many years I have observed that physical scientists often have a deep interest in the arts.

07/01/05

Debbie Harris: Balancing it all

Whether climbing trees with her eight-year-old son Isaac, trying to put a dress on her four-year-old daughter Sonia, or running tests on the MINOS neutrino beam line, Debbie Harris is a problem solver and her mind is always busy. "It's really hard to be a parent," she says.

07/01/05

Two tribes become one

A physicist who has devoted his career to developing linear colliders confronts the decision that changed the global physics community and the focus of his work.

07/01/05

Hot extra dimensions

The most-cited paper in theoretical particle physics in 2004 was "A large mass hierarchy from a small extra dimension" by Lisa Randall and Raman Sundrum, published in Physical Review Letters in 1999.

07/01/05

Starship it's not

"It's funny to see how people react to it. Non-technical people steer wide and won't touch it, while engineers and designers, people you wouldn't think of as given to humor, will stand in front of it until it moves around or put a handkerchief on the wireless camera.

Illustration of a man tightrope walking the Golden Gate Bridge and ants walking around the cable

07/01/05

Extra dimensions

Extra dimensions sound like science fiction, but they could be part of the real world.

07/01/05

No little plans

In his vision for Fermilab's future, director Pier Oddone offers insight from a bumper sticker: "If you want to predict the future, help create it."

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