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Explain it in 60 seconds: High-Luminosity LHC

02/26/25

Sarah Charley

The upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider will allow scientists to better study known phenomena and to search for new ones.

A close up view of the amplifier controls

08/29/19

Upcycled instrument tied to auspicious accelerator

A composer has given new life to an amplifier used within a historically significant particle accelerator.

An illustration of a physicist in costume as Shuri from Wakanda

08/27/19

Channeling Shuri as a physicist at Wakandacon

Fermilab scientist Jessica Esquivel donned a superhero costume to celebrate diversity in STEM, nerdiness and science at Wakandacon in Chicago.

08/22/19

Holography class gives students new perspective

A holography class at the Ohio State University combines art and physics to provide a more complete picture of how we understand the world around us.

Scientists in a library of computer data

08/20/19

With open data, scientists share their work

There are barriers to making scientific data open, but doing so has already contributed to scientific progress.

08/15/19

Crossing fields

Karen Uhlenbeck’s pioneering work marries math with physics.

08/13/19

Testing DAMA

An Italian experiment has a 20-year signal of what could be dark matter—and scientists are embarking on their most promising efforts yet to confirm or refute its results.

08/08/19

Physics in the eyes and ears of an artist

Photographer Adam Nadel started his residency at Fermilab taking the portraits he is known for, but then he found himself venturing onto new artistic ground.

08/01/19

Powered by pixels

An innovative use of pixel technology is making liquid-argon neutrino detectors even better.

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