The Energy Department has awarded a $5 billion contract to a nonprofit organization that will help run the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. Fermi Forward Discovery Group is ...

As the massive 95-metric ton coldbox completed its cross-ocean journey, the crowd at Fermilab braving frigid winter temperatures last week could imagine what the particle accelerator being chilled to ...

The compact design of Fermilab’s electron beam prototype accelerator for sterilizing medical equipment is made possible by combining four emerging particle accelerator technologies. During the ...

CHANTILLY, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amentum (NYSE: AMTM), a market leader in energy and environmental engineering solutions, announced today that the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science has ...

Scientists have taken a major step towards finding elusive types of tiny, 'ghost-like' particles, and potentially new physics. For the first time, neutrinos have been spotted by the Short-Baseline ...

Norbert Holtkamp has been appointed as the new director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, effective Jan. 12, 2026. Holtkamp brings deep scientific and operational expertise to Fermilab, which ...

This image provided by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory shows the ring-shaped track that scientists used to study tiny particles called muons, July 20, 2023 in Batavia, Ill. (Ryan ...

A. Lincoln Read was one of the first physicists hired to help launch the U.S. government’s Fermilab particle physics and accelerator laboratory near Batavia, and held important roles at the lab for 38 ...

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