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10/15/24
University of Chicago

The long and strange lives of Enrico Fermi’s accelerator building at UChicago

The accelerator ran for ten years and made multiple contributions to the field of particle physics and our knowledge of the universe; but for decades after it was decommissioned, the high bay built to house it was used for everything from building telescopes to extracting dinosaur bones.

10/14/24
Fermilab

Successful test delivers DUNE steel beam a mile underground

Teams from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Sanford Underground Research Facility have successfully completed the first test lift and lowering of a six-ton L-shaped steel beam for construction of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment in Lead, South Dakota.

10/11/24
CERN

Particle physicists chart a course to the future

During its September session the Council appointed members of the Physics Preparatory Group, which will prepare scientific input to the work of the European Strategy Group based on the views it gathers from the community.

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The quantum chase

11/26/24
Laura Dattaro

Some friendly competition led up to the first discovery of entanglement at the Large Hadron Collider.

Illustration of Raphael Granier De Cassagnac
05/28/24

The physicist gamer

Raphael Granier De Cassagnac recently put his scientific skills to use creating a physics-themed video game.

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05/01/24

AI for control rooms

Scientists inside and outside of particle physics and astrophysics are leaning on AI for assistance with complex tasks.

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