Source: Chicago Sun-Times
In the newly constructed NOvA Detector Hall, 330 feet underground at Fermilab in Batavia, Underground Coordinator Bill Lee explains how scientists and engineers will assemble the "Near Detector" in the hall this summer o ...
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Source: Quantam Diaries
Fermilab’s new Run Like A Proton accelerator path at the Lederman Science Center is now open. Photo: Reidar Hahn It’s one thing for kids to try to envision particles zipping around underground when learning about the science at Fermila ...
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Source: PhysOrg.com
The Majorana Demonstrator is being assembled and stored 4,850 feet beneath the earth's surface in enriched copper to limit the amount of background interference from cosmic rays and radioactive isotopes. More f ...
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Source: Kane County Chronicle
The public was invited to Fermilab on Thursday to learn more about the proposed Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment project, which would send a beam of neutrinos – particles with almost no mass that pass through many types of ma ...
Full article at: Kane County Chronicle
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Source: Barnes & Noble Review
Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings always seem packaged with an appealing extra measure of excitement, zest, ...
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Source: Guardian Unlimited
Two years ago, a mathematician and physicist whom I've known for more than 20 years arranged to meet me in a bar in New York. What he was about to show me, he explained, were ideas that he'd been working on for the past ...
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Source: Guardian Unlimited
There are a lot of open questions in modern physics. Most of the universe is missing, for example. The atoms we know about account for less than 5% of the mass of the observable universe - the rest is dark matter ( ...
Full article at: Guardian Unlimited
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