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 ...

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US researchers have successfully accelerated and stored the first proton beams inside a specialized ...

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has a new director. Norbert Holtkamp will take over Jan. 12, the University of Chicago announced Monday. Holtkamp is the former deputy director of the SLAC ...

A massive project to build one of the world’s most powerful particle accelerators at Fermilab has been halted since May 25 while federal authorities investigate an accident that severely injured a ...

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

The Batavia-based Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will again be getting funds from the United States Department of Energy for its job retention program for U.S. military veterans, the lab ...

(Reuters) -One of the U.S. Department of Energy's 17 national labs was attacked by hackers as part of a recent campaign seeking to exploit flaws in Microsoft's SharePoint software, Bloomberg News ...

John Peoples was asked in the mid-1990s about the value of doing pure scientific research — that which has no predetermined benefit. “Knowledge is a form of wealth,” he replied. “It is an investment.” ...