Fermilab is now part of the recent buzz about neutrinos following the CERN announcement that neutrinos sent to INFN in Italy may have traveled faster than the speed of light: the MicroBooNE neutrino experiment at Fermilab has received Critical Decision 2-3a approval from the Department of Energy.
Month: October 2011
Brookhaven National Lab named an APS Historic Site
The American Physical Society (APS) — a 48,000-member organization representing physicists in the United States and around the world and publisher of numerous scientific journals — has named Brookhaven National Laboratory an APS Historic Site.
Berkeley Lab astrophysicist wins Nobel Prize in Physics
Saul Perlmutter, an astrophysicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California at Berkeley, has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae.”
Samuel C. Collins “discovered” in Tennessee Library
Mike Towle, General Manager/Editor of the Tennessean, shares his experience of discovering the Samuel C. Collins Room at the Portland TN library.
CERN releases “LHSee” Android app
Popular Science's Paul Adams reports that CERN has released an Android app allowing users to watch LHC particle collisions as they happen.
Dick Kropschot dies September 30
Richard Henry Kropschot, age 84, died peacefully September 30, 2011.
SuperPower to share $3.1 million grant for superconducting wire
SuperPower Inc., a Schenectady, New York, subsidiary of Netherlands-based Philips,will share in $3.1 million awarded to the University of Houston, Texas, to develop prototypes for lower cost, higher efficiency superconducting wire for wind turbines.
Astronomers find elusive planets in decade-old Hubble data
In a painstaking re-analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images from 1998, astronomers have found visual evidence for two extrasolar planets that went undetected back then.
Tevatron shuts down Sept. 30
Thousands of Fermilab staff members and scientific collaborators flooded Fermilab and watched remotely online from across the globe on September 30 to see the Tevatron power down one final time.