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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.

07/26/16

The first website to be hosted in the US has grown to be an invaluable hub for open science.

07/18/16

At Fermilab and CERN, students, lab employees and visitors alike are on the hunt for virtual creatures.

07/15/16

Ghostbusters advisor James Maxwell explains the science of bustin'.

07/15/16

As science advisors, physicists Lindley Winslow and Janet Conrad gave the Ghostbusters crew a taste of life in the lab.

07/12/16

What’s the difference between a synchrotron and a cyclotron, anyway?

07/05/16

From lightning to the death of electrons, the highest-energy form of light is everywhere.

06/28/16

Scientists are using a plastic robot and hair-thin pieces of metal to ready a magnet that will hunt for new physics.

06/23/16

Higgs bosons should mass-produce bottom quarks. So why is it so hard to see it happening?