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01/21/20
New York Times

Alone on a mountaintop, awaiting a very hard rain

Decades ago, Armenian scientists built a high-elevation trap to catch and study cosmic rays. Physics has mostly moved on, but the station persists—a ghost observatory with a skeleton crew.

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Photo grid 3X3 RHAPSODY simulation
10/19/12

Learning to play the dark matter boogie

A growing suite of computational instruments is helping scientists determine how fast local concentrations of dark matter move, which in turn could help them cut in on the dance of dark matter particles.

Photo of CERN computer center
10/15/12

A summer of (physics) code

This summer, seven young coding whizzes contributed to CERN projects through the Google Summer of Code program.

Photo of three-dimensional integrated chip
10/11/12

Electronics in an extra dimension

3D chips—smaller and more powerful than their 2D counterparts—are beginning to make an impact in industry. Now, Fermilab is working with industrial partners to fabricate prototype 3D chips for use in science.

Photo of cranes on green river surrounded by trees
10/09/12

Caring for the prairie

Volunteers at Fermilab continue the site’s rich history of environmentally responsible land management.

Illustration of Haroche and Wineland
10/09/12

Nobel honors research by particle trappers

Serge Haroche and David Wineland, who opened a new era of research by building particle traps and experimenting with individual particles without destroying them, were honored with the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics.

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