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Helping hands

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

In high-energy physics, friends don't let friends run at low luminosity. And with more than a little help from HEP friends, Fermilab's Tevatron has set a series of luminosity records, culminating at 8:50 a.m. on Wednesday, October 9. The world's most powerful particle accelerator achieved an unprecedented luminosity of 3.61 x 1031cm-2sec-1, a measure of the number of high-energy particle collisions per second, also characterized as the beam's brightness.

Tiny technology leads to big changes in DNA research at Argonne

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New gene therapy procedures, DNA-based sensors, and other medical applications may be possible using a new method to initiate and control chemical reactions on DNA strands, developed by a team of chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. The technology is based on the group's discovery of "conductive linkers"--small organic molecules that connect the electronic properties of semiconductors to biological or organic molecules.

FYI

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

If you've ever tried to speak with a member of the military, you know that comprehension is nearly impossible unless you're familiar with its language. You probably also know that its language of acronyms sometimes seems...well, pointless. They don't have cars, they have POVs--Privately Owned Vehicles.

New neutrino experiment at Fermilab goes live

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists of the Booster Neutrino Experiment collaboration announced on September 9 that a new detector at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has observed its first neutrino events.

NIH supports ice slurry at Argonne

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

A promising new approach to saving cardiac arrest victims – injecting them with ice slurry – is being expanded under a new five-year, $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago's Emergency Resuscitation Center.

Funder: National Institutes of Health

OSTP's Marburger visits Fermilab

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

I am personally excited about particle physics," John Marburger, the Bush Administration's director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, told a Fermilab audience earlier this month. Furthermore, he said, now is a great time to be a particle physicist.

Interactions - Communicating particle physics in the 21st century

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Physics is in crisis. We have lost our ideals and focus as a unified field. The reasons for this loss can be traced to recent history as well as to pressures currently felt within the physics community. Particle physics used to be the dominant area and had pride-of-place in our discipline. It was "basic" and "fundamental." It was exciting, with many great discoveries taking place and with a unified picture of the interactions emerging.

Mission: Luminosity

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

The sign says it all about our mission for this critical time in the Beams Division and at Fermilab -- we are focused on improving the performance of the Tevatron for Run II, almost to the exclusion of anything else. Lots of people have already told me how much they like it--an indication that people in the division and in the laboratory are committed to succeeding.

Syracuse joins the search

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

The first chancellor of Syracuse University allowed his cow to graze on campus. But from those pastoral roots, the university has grown to be leader in the development of science and technology in New York state. In the 1980s, Syracuse launched one of the state's first Centers for Advanced Technology–the CASE Center--to revitalize local economic growth through technology. Last year, New York state was the second-largest sponsor, after the federal government, of research at the university.

Notes from underground

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Neutrinos fly through the earth with the greatest of ease. In the blink of eye, they flit effortlessly through the planet's rocky crust at nearly the speed of light. Not so for the miners of generations past who dug their way, foot by backbreaking, dangerous foot, through the rock of Minnesota's Iron Range.