Beacon-News: At an all-hands meeting yesterday, Fermilab’s director Pier Oddone reassured the assembled staff that the lab’s future was bright, even though funding for a proposed three-year extension for the lab’s main machine, the Tevatron, fell through last week. Now, Oddone said, Fermilab would commit itself to the plan that was in place before the Tevatron extension became a possibility: to explore the intensity frontier, where the lab’s ability to generate large numbers of particles could reveal rare and elusive events.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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