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Testing, testing!

01/15/25

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just successfully completed a series of full-system tests using an engineering test camera.

08/02/13

A set of twin doors take on two very different purposes at Fermilab and Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo.

07/30/13

Sound artist Bill Fontana taps into the music of the Large Hadron Collider.

07/23/13

Fermilab physicist Todd Johnson spends his work and vacation hours with accelerators. What he produces during each are two very different things.

07/18/13

Theorist Sean Carroll thinks it’s time you learned the truth: All of the particles you know—including the Higgs—are actually fields.

07/16/13

Particles communicate with one another through force carriers.

07/09/13

Gunnar Maehlum is a businessman who retains the innovative and critical thinking he learned in particle physics.

07/08/13

Carnegie Mellon University alumni trace the origin of the smiley to a group of computer scientists discussing a physics puzzle in 1982.

07/02/13

Planck, the space telescope that this year revealed unprecedentedly detailed information about the early universe, is just getting started.