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10/31/17
New Yorker

Dark matter gets its day

A new cosmological celebration, coinciding with Halloween, seeks to shed light on one of the great mysteries of the universe.

10/27/17
Max Planck Institute

Post a gravitational wave

On December 7 the Federal Ministry of Finance in Germany will issue a gravitational wave stamp.

10/24/17
DarkMatterDay.com

Dark Matter Day events

On and around October 31, the world will celebrate the hunt for the unseen—something that scientists refer to as dark matter.

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Conceptual illustration of a pie with a lattice crust

Explain it in 60 Seconds: Lattice QCD

07/25/24
Sarah Charley

Lattice gauge theory, or lattice QCD, is a calculation method that helps scientists make predictions about the behavior of quarks at low energies.

05/01/06

e-Lab outreach in Bangalore

Armed with tin foil, GPS units, and sheets of black paper, two Fermilab educators headed to Bangalore to help high-school and college teachers set up a detector at a local planetarium.

05/01/06

Bringing science to Vietnam

You can't start a high-energy physics program in a remote third-world country overnight. But you might be able to do it in fifteen years. That is what Vietnamese and American physicists hope to do by helping Vietnamese students to become part of the worldwide particle physics community.

Logbook of April 2006
04/01/06

Tevatron record

The Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab set a world record on Sunday afternoon, July 3, 1983, achieving a beam energy of 512 billion electronvolts (GeV). Accelerator operators had made the first-ever attempt at accelerating a beam in the Tevatron at 3:12 a.m. that day, reaching 250 GeV.

04/01/06

HEPAP redux

A newly structured High Energy Physics Advisory Panel met in Washington, DC, to provide advice to the Department of Energy and National Science Foundation and to hear science policy-makers’ responses to the President’s budget request.

04/01/06

Signs of the times

Small whiteboards, hung on office doors, and ubiquitous bicycle helmets are signposts for the interactive, fluid nature of current endeavors at SLAC.

04/01/06

Hunting the origin of Alzheimer's

A surgeon and a scratch golfer most of his adult life, a US Army officer in World War II, the doctor gave up his medical practice in his 60s while exhibiting increasingly erratic behavior–such as meandering down to a favorite car dealer in his prosperous New Jersey town, and signing the pap

04/01/06

The Ziploc purse

During a recent trip to CERN on the Franco-Swiss border, my fellow International Linear Collider communicators and I gathered in the cafeteria for tea and coffee.

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