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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.

04/13/21

Read the travelogue of a xenon atom as it journeys from the air we breathe to a dark-matter detector a mile underground.

04/06/21

What does it take to envision and build a seemingly impossible particle accelerator?

03/30/21

A super-precise experiment at Fermilab is carefully analyzing every detail of the muon’s magnetic moment.

03/29/21

A degree in particle physics or astrophysics can lead to a career in data science.

03/23/21

Researchers make progress on a vexing problem about how black holes evolve.

03/16/21

Learn about the Standard Model of particle physics and how physicists use it to predict the (subatomic) future.

03/09/21

The observatory has made detailed information about an initial selection of its recorded cosmic-ray events available for outside scientists to use.

03/09/21

Steve Tammes’ love of physics began with his grandfather’s tales about Fermilab.