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Five thousand eyes on the skies: Scientists choreograph robots to observe distant galaxies

The new Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is the most advanced of its kind, with 5,000 robotic positioners that will enable scientists to gather more than 20 times more data on celestial objects than previous surveys. Researchers at Fermilab helped develop the software that will direct these positioners to focus on galaxies several billion light-years away and are currently in the process of fine-tuning the programs used before the last round of testing later this year.

Saturday Morning Physics goes virtual

Fermilab's popular outreach program for high school students, started in 1980, takes full advantage of modern technology to reach a broader audience. Recordings now are available online.

Four new events: Fermilab Arts and Lectures At Home

The Fermilab Arts and Lecture Series launches a new set of science talks so you can learn from the comfort of your home.

CMS collaboration publishes 1,000th paper

On June 19, scientists at the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider published their 1,000th paper. The monumental achievement reflects an incomparable contribution to humanity's understanding of the universe — and it's just the beginning.

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Crews create a blast to take the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment to the next stage

Construction workers have carried out the first underground blasting for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility, which will provide the space, infrastructure and particle beam for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. This prep work paves the way for removing more than 800,000 tons of rock to make space for the gigantic DUNE detectors a mile underground.

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Three Fermilab scientists receive DOE Early Career Awards

The Department of Energy's Office of Science has selected three Fermilab scientists to receive the 2020 DOE Early Career Research Award, now in its 11th year. The prestigious award is designed to bolster the nation's scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during the crucial early years, when many scientists do their most formative work.

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House panels use 'emergency' to boost NIH, DOE science budgets

FFrom Science, July 7, 2020: Spending panels in the U.S. House of Representatives have begun voting on bills to fund the government, and a few of them made use of an emergency mechanism to beef up research budgets. The national laboratories funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Science is a big winner, receiving a one-time boost of $6.25 billion next year under a plan approved by a House spending panel, including funding for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility hosted by Fermilab.

The search for leptonic CP violation

From CERN Courier, July 7, 2020: Fermilab scientist Boris Kayser Texplains how neutrino physicists are now closing in on a crucial piece of evidence in a most convoluted detective story: the unknown origin of the matter–antimatter asymmetry observed in the universe.

Tuning in to neutrinos

From CERN Courier, July 7, 2020: A new generation of accelerator and reactor experiments is opening an era of high-precision neutrino measurements to tackle questions such as leptonic CP violation, the mass hierarchy and the possibility of a fourth "sterile" neutrino. These include the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, hosted by Fermilab, and Fermilab's NOvA and Short-Baseline Neutrino programs.

Chicago Quantum Exchange welcomes seven new partners in tech, computing and finance, to advance research and training

From the Chicago Quantum Exchange, July 7, 2020: The Chicago Quantum Exchange has added to its community seven new corporate partners in computing, technology and finance that are working to bring about and primed to take advantage of the coming quantum revolution: Intel, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, Quantum Design, Qubitekk, Rigetti Computing and Zurich Instruments. CQE is anchored by the University of Chicago, Fermilab, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and it includes the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University.

Department of Energy announces $132 million for high-energy physics research

From Department of Energy, July 6, 2020: DOE announces $132 million in funding for 64 university research awards on a range of topics in high-energy physics to advance knowledge of how the universe works at its most fundamental level. Projects include experimental work on neutrinos at Fermilab, the search for dark matter, studies of the nature of dark energy and the expansion of the universe with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument and and investigation of the Higgs boson from data collected at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland.

The detector with a billion sensors that may finally snare dark matter

From New Scientist, July 1, 2020: Fermilab theorist Gordan Krnjaic is quoted in this article on efforts to sense its minuscule gravitational force as it brushes past us.