symmetry magazine • 14th May 2019Casting a wide net In their quest to discover physics beyond the Standard Model, physicists weigh the pros and cons of different search strategies
Scientific American • 30th April 2019As Pesticide Turns Up in More Places, Safety Concerns Mount A growing body of research is challenging the assumption that neonicotinoids are safer and less likely to spread than other pesticides
Scientific American • 26th April 2019Is the EPA Stifling Science on Chemical Toxicity Reports? Critics say changes to the agency’s review process will harm public health
Scientific American • 16th April 2019Cuttlefish Are Dazzling, But Do They Dream? The marine mollusks display behavior that resembles sleep, including cycles of rapid eye movement
Scientific American • 11th April 2019Tests on Astronaut and Twin Brother Highlight Spaceflight's Human Impact NASA Study reports physiological and behavioral results that could shape future space missions
Scientific American • 9th April 2019A Geological "Orrery" Could Reveal Planetary Dynamics in Deep Time Paul Olsen drills into the Earth’s sedimentary record for clues about the evolution of the solar system
Scientific American • 4th April 2019Cats Recognize Their Own Names--Even If They Choose to Ignore Them Domestic felines distinguish between their monikers and similar-sounding words, new research shows
Fermilab News • 27th March 2019Waiting for Neutrinos Particle detectors recorded neutrinos from supernova SN1987A hours before telescopes saw the first light. Thirty years later, scientists around the world are eager to detect neutrinos from another one.
Scientific American • 21st March 2019Study on Weed-Killers and Monarch Butterflies Spurs Ecological Flap Some scientists question museum data analysis that suggests Roundup is not responsible for the insects’ decline
Scientific American • 12th March 2019Infectious Diseases Spike amid Venezuela's Political Turmoil Scientists say the rise in illnesses is due to a combination of government suppression of research, a lack of disease data and climate change
Scientific American • 26th February 2019Did Crawling Critters Leave These Cracks? The Answer Could Rewrite Evolutionary History Researchers say they found evidence life began moving 2.1 billion years ago, but that contentious conclusion is far from certain
Scientific American • 15th February 2019Venezuela Is Unraveling--So Is Its Science Research has ground to a halt, and many scientists have left the country out of desperation
Scientific American • 15th February 2019Ancient Earth's Weakened Magnetic Field May Have Driven Mass Extinction When our planet’s magnetosphere nearly disappeared 565 million years ago, it may have almost taken all life with it
Scientific American • 7th February 2019Putting Solar Panels on Water Is a Great Idea, but Will It Float? The U.S. has been slow to embrace the technology, even though Japan and China are zooming ahead
symmetry magazine • 5th February 2019Tenacious persistence Liz Sexton-Kennedy talks to Symmetry about her lifelong drive to learn and how it led to her current role as Chief Information Officer for Fermilab
Scientific American • 30th January 2019The Universe's Fate Rests on the Hubble Constant--Which Has So Far Eluded Astronomers Scientists keep getting conflicting calculations of the expansion rate of the universe, but a new technique could help.
Scientific American • 17th January 2019Bitter Reality: Most Wild Coffee Species Risk Extinction Worldwide Researchers surveyed the world’s 124 coffee species and found more than half are threatened.
symmetry magazine • 17th January 2019Looking to the literature Fermilab’s Inclusivity Journal Club seeks answers to difficult social questions in science.
Fermilab News • 15th November 2018How to build a towering millikelvin thermometer Engineering a device that can precisely take the temperature of 770 tons of liquid argon is no easy task.
symmetry magazine • 13th November 2018Gravitational lenses Predicted by Einstein and discovered in 1979, gravitational lensing helps astrophysicists understand the evolving shape of the universe.
