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07/13/20

A dash of virtual reality helps replicate the serendipitous interactions of an in-person conference when participants are scattered across the globe.

How do scientists get lead into the LHC?

01/28/25

Sarah Charley

Once a year, the Large Hadron Collider smashes lead ions. But how do scientists get a heavy metal into a particle accelerator?

09/25/13

Fermilab physicists and educators mingled with young adult science enthusiasts at Adler After Dark.

09/25/13

Astrophysicists find a new use for the video cards that give computer games that movie quality: crunching scientific data.

09/24/13

In their search for fundamental truths, particle physicists have a lot in common with explorers everywhere.

09/23/13

Through the “Collision” contest, 22 artists and scientists pushed themselves into new territory, portraying the concept of “new physics” through art.

09/13/13

Finding micro black holes at the LHC would alert scientists to the existence of extra dimensions, which might explain why gravity seems so weak.

09/12/13

A brewery near Fermilab honors the arrival of a giant electromagnet.

09/06/13

A Fermilab physicist and TED artists have created a short animation about the most famous description of the Higgs field.

08/29/13

A summer intern at Jefferson Laboratory is excited about the proposed International Linear Collider—and he’s got the tattoo to prove it.