Collaboration members for the NOvA neutrino experiment held public tours of the future site of the NOvA detector facility the weekend of Minnesota's annual Governor's Fishing Opener. Aside from proximity of the site to the opener, held on Lake Kabetogama, does the experiment have anything to do with fishing? Maybe. Fishing guide Frank House and physicist Mark Messier explain. (Video by Kathryn Grim)

Former Fermilab Deputy Director Young-Kee Kim was once a CDF experiment postdoc who put her heart and soul into the particle detector. At one point, her tireless efforts brought her work to a brief, soporific standstill.

Marge Bardeen, educator and former head of the Fermilab Education Office, tells the story of how a number of people dedicated to science education started the lab's first education initiatives.

Scientists and dignitaries broke ground for an international mega-science project in South Dakota on July 21, 2017. The Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility will host the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, a project involving about 1,000 scientists from more than 160 institutions in 30 countries. Representatives from U.S. Congress, the Executive Office of the President, the state of South Dakota and global partners in the project participated in the groundbreaking. LBNF will send an intense neutrino beam through 1,300 kilometers of rock from the Department of Energy’s Fermilab to the DUNE particle detectors to be located in 1.5-kilometer-deep caverns at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. More info at http://dunescience.org

Five physicists duke it out with 12 minutes each to explain a complex particle physics concept in front of a large audience of the general public. Then an applause meter determines the ultimate slammer. See below for links to presenters.
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10:00 Stuart Henderson with "Accelerator Driven Systems"
22:00 Chris Stoughton with "Holography of the Universe"
32:15 Doug Glenzinski with "Discovery Science with Muons"
42:30 Deborah Harris with "Neutrino Monologues"
56:15 Bob Tschirhart with "Project X"
1:09:55 Voting and Q&A

Why I Love Neutrinos is a series spotlighting those mysterious, abundant, ghostly particles that are all around us. This installment features Professor André Rubbia of ETH Zurich, co-spokesperson of the DUNE collaboration http://www.dunescience.org. For more information on neutrinos, visit the Fermilab website at http://www.fnal.gov.

The Muon g-2 ring successfully completed its second night of road journey on July 24 and 25, 2013. This time lapse was shot at an interval of one frame every two seconds. To learn more about Fermilab, the ring and its experiment visit http://www.fnal.gov.

Don’t miss Fermilab’s 50th Anniversary Open House on Sept. 23, 2017, from 10am to 4pm! Register for free at http://50.fnal.gov/openhouse/ to get behind-the-scenes access to some of the coolest science you’ll ever see (in parts of the science lab that visitors can’t normally go). There will also be hands-on demos, shows, live links to labs around the world, bison, and plenty of people to answer all your science questions. More details available at http://50.fnal.gov/openhouse/what-to-see-at-open-house/. You can find our other 50th anniversary events at http://50.fnal.gov/ and follow along on social media with #Fermilabs50th.

Her Excellency the Right Honorable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, visited the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory on April 26, 2018. The Governor General toured the lab’s extensive research complex and celebrated the start of a new partnership between Fermilab and York University in Toronto in support of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

From time immemorial humans have been charting the night sky to make sense of the cosmos—from the mapping of stars for navigation to today’s digital surveys of galaxies to understand dark matter. In this 60-minute-long presentation Dr. Priya Natarajan, author of the book “Mapping the Heavens,” recounts the evolution of celestial map-making and shows how maps literally track our ever evolving cosmic view. In particular, she discusses recent developments in our understanding of two invisible entities: dark matter and black holes. Dr. Natarajan is a theoretical astrophysicist at Yale University, interested in cosmology, gravitational lensing and black hole physics. Her research focuses on making dark matter maps of clusters of galaxies, the largest known repositories of dark matter.

Fermilab's fourth annual Physics Slam, held on Nov. 20, 2015, featured five physicists vying to explain their area of study in the most entertaining way possible. Contestants included 9:28 Brian Ingram, 20:10 Brad Benson, 32:52 Cindy Joe, 43:50 Steve Nahn and 54:39 Chris Marshall, and the event was hosted by Chris Miller of the College of DuPage. Visit Fermilab online at http://www.fnal.gov. Follow the lab on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/fermilab and on Twitter @FermilabToday.

Scientist Craig Moore talks about a small fix in an accelerator that paid big dividends for the Tevatron program in the 1990s.

Georgia Karagiorgi of Manchester University loves neutrinos as they are very "stingy" in revealing their mysteries. Discovering their properties is like a popular game you might have played.

Scientists Rocky Kolb and Mike Turner recount the time they first proposed that Fermilab – dedicated to the study of the universe's smallest constituents — expand its program to include the stars, galaxies and the cosmos.

Scientists from US institutions form the single largest national group working on the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. While the location of the accelerator is in Europe, US scientists are an integral part of the effort and have held leadership roles, including in the recent discovery of the Higgs boson.

Why I Love Neutrinos is a series spotlighting those mysterious, abundant, ghostly particles that are all around us. This installment features Professor Kate Scholberg of Duke University. For more information on neutrinos, visit the Fermilab website at http://www.fnal.gov.

Roger Dixon, longtime Fermilab accelerator scientist, tells the story of a young summer student's naive, bungled encounter with a Fermilab VIP in the 1970s.

The Ash River faciility in Minnesota will house the detector for the NOvA neutrino experiment. It will receive the beam of neutrinos from Fermilab. The NOvA far detector, when complete, will be the largest plastic structure in the world. Sixteen-meter-long PVC tubes will form planes nearly 50 feet by 50 feet square. The planes will be stacked and glued 32 layers at a time and then pivoted to their final vertical position in the detector hall. Nearly 10,000 kilometers of wave-shifting fiber will be threaded through the 368,000 individual tubes, and finally the detector will be filled with 3,200,000 gallons of mineral oil loaded with scintillator.

This clip shows the "Miss Katie" pushing the muon g-2 ring upstream on the Illinois River, and passing through the Peoria Lock and Dam as it travels toward Lemont, where it will be unloaded onto the special Emmert transporter and driven to Fermilab.

Adrienne Kolb, former Fermilab archivist and historian, came to live at the laboratory in 1983 with her husband, their three children and their dog. On-site country living included frequent science conferences, regular encounters with wildlife and lively, neighborly gatherings.