December 6, 2005:
The MINOS experiment has reached an important milestone of 1E20 protons on target, a new record in long baseline accelerator experiments. The number of events should be large enough to do world class analysis of oscillation parameters. The MINOS Collaboration realizes that this important goal could not have been reached without dedicated and beyond-call-of-duty work of many Fermilab employees. We would especially like to thank the many members of the Accelerator Division, who have made major efforts to achieve this accomplishment, as well as all of the other divisions who have provided strong and consistent support. We greatly appreciate our colleagues at Fermilab who worked hard for many hours to get us back on the air when different misfortunes struck our experiment. We feel very lucky to know that we can always count on them for maximum effort when the circumstances call for it.

— Stan Wojcicki
MINOS Co-Spokesperson

Part of the e-Lab study guide, a workflow for student learning. Image Courtesy of Liz Quigg.

The I2U2 goal is to support and strengthen the education and outreach activities of grid-based scientific experiments. The project, recently funded by the National Science Foundation, will provide two options to scientists building an educational program: e-Labs, for use by students in a formal educational setting; and i-Labs for informal education, such as museum exhibits. The I2U2 team of teachers, scientists and grid developers is creating an e-Lab toolkit for use by scientific collaborations, and is piloting the i-Labs with the Chicago's Adler Planetarium.
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A multi-nation effort at Geneva-based CERN laboratory to recreate conditions existing just after the Big Bang could give vital clues to the creation of the universe and help overcome prejudices against this widely held scientific theory, an eminent science writer said in Kolkata on Tuesday.

Through its Large Hadron Collidor (LHC), which is expected to collide basic constituents of matter and recreate hot and dense conditions of Big Bang scenario, the European laboratory might also end up discovering new applications of the technique in particle physics, Simon Singh, BBC broadcaster and science writer, told newsperson on the sidelines of 'Big Bang The History Of The Universe' lecture.
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