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The adaptable physicist

08/20/24

Madeleine O’Keefe

Edgar Marrufo Villalpando went from Mexico to the United States and from computational physics to astronomical instrumentation to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a physicist.

04/04/23

Is dark matter the most powerful wave in the universe?

Dark matter could consist of particles so ultralight, they behave more like waves.

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03/28/23

A collaboration pairs Fermilab with fashion students

Fashion students at the College of DuPage successfully designed gear to protect Fermilab’s SPOT robot from radioactive dust.

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03/14/23

How to put together an international physics experiment

To build the DUNE neutrino experiment and its associated accelerator upgrade, experts invent customized ways to transport fragile, expensive and highly specialized components.

Illustration: A scientist studies the forms before her without realizing the forms behind her

03/07/23

Do hidden influences give neutrinos their tiny mass?

The quest to understand the small mass of neutrinos is also a quest to discover new particles.

02/28/23

Kétévi Assamagan pays it forward

Kétévi Assamagan's contributions to physics go beyond his research at the Large Hadron Collider.

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02/21/23

What the Higgs boson tells us about the universe

The Higgs boson is the only fundamental particle known to be scalar, meaning it has no quantum spin. This fact answers questions about our universe, but it also raises new ones.

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02/14/23

Creating the next 3D maps of the universe

Scientists have proposed new instruments that would use spectroscopy to decode dark matter, dark energy and cosmic inflation.

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02/07/23

How to do particle physics in a climate emergency

Scientists in the particle physics community are bringing environmental and climate issues to the table in discussions about future research.

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