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The freckled universe

05/06/25

Madeleine O’Keefe

There’s a new class of cosmic object in town. And it might just overturn our understanding of black holes and galaxy evolution.

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04/18/23

Practice makes perfect (particle detectors)

Prototyping is an indispensable step in the development of particle physics experiments like DUNE and projects like PIP-II.

04/04/23

Is dark matter the most powerful wave in the universe?

Dark matter could consist of particles so ultralight, they behave more like waves.

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03/28/23

A collaboration pairs Fermilab with fashion students

Fashion students at the College of DuPage successfully designed gear to protect Fermilab’s SPOT robot from radioactive dust.

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03/14/23

How to put together an international physics experiment

To build the DUNE neutrino experiment and its associated accelerator upgrade, experts invent customized ways to transport fragile, expensive and highly specialized components.

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03/07/23

Do hidden influences give neutrinos their tiny mass?

The quest to understand the small mass of neutrinos is also a quest to discover new particles.

02/28/23

Kétévi Assamagan pays it forward

Kétévi Assamagan's contributions to physics go beyond his research at the Large Hadron Collider.

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02/21/23

What the Higgs boson tells us about the universe

The Higgs boson is the only fundamental particle known to be scalar, meaning it has no quantum spin. This fact answers questions about our universe, but it also raises new ones.

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02/14/23

Creating the next 3D maps of the universe

Scientists have proposed new instruments that would use spectroscopy to decode dark matter, dark energy and cosmic inflation.

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