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Engineers escorted a 209,000-pound cooler into its new home at Fermilab in Batavia, as part of a new particle accelerator project aiming to better understand the building blocks of the universe.

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With the help of MIT Open Learning's free online resources, including MIT OpenCourseWare, Turkish student Doğa Kürkçüoğlu was able to pursue his passion for physics. He is now a staff scientist at Fermilab.

Scientists have measured the magnetic moment of the muon to unprecedented precision, more than doubling the previous record.

Scientists working on the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have identified the detector's first neutrino interactions.

The hunt for particles of dark matter has been stymied once again, with physicists placing constraints on this mysterious substance that are 5 times tighter than the previous best

In a major step for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), scientists have detected the first neutrinos using a DUNE prototype particle detector at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab).

New research suggests stars in the Milky Way give off infrared heat expected from Dyson spheres, which physicist Freeman Dyson theorized could be created by ...

The world's largest underground laboratory could rewrite the rules of the universe as we know it and reveal the most powerful energy source in the universe.

The crane was captured and relocated by the International Crane Foundation and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

One of the great mysteries of modern science is dark matter. We know dark matter exists thanks to its effects on other objects in the cosmos, but we have never been able to directly see it. And it's no minor thing—currently, scientists think it makes up about 85% of all the mass in the universe.

During the manufacturing process, many medical devices or equipment for use on humans must be sterilized according to recognized standards. This includes gowns, surgical drapes, syringes and implantable medical devices. In fact, the United States has a huge medical device sterilization industry, regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The industry is expected to grow considerably in the coming years.

Tom Skilling, a meteorology icon in Chicago and native son of Aurora, was honored Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Tom Skilling, the longtime WGN-TV chief meteorologist, announced his retirement Thursday during the evening news.

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Scientists from Mu2e at Fermilab and COMET at J-PARC in Japan will join forces to conduct two experiments to see if muons can transform into electrons.

Astrophysicists can use measurements of the cosmic microwave background, radiation formed 380,000 years after the Big Bang, to understand what the universe was like in its infancy. And by observing light emitted from galaxies close enough to Earth for telescopes to detect, scientists can catalog individual galaxies to learn about their distribution.

The latest data from the Muon g−2 experiment corroborates previous results, but clashing theoretical predictions leave physicists without a clear conclusion