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Why I Went Birdwatching At A Particle Physics Lab
We drove past the perfect-circle frozen pond delineating the Booster—the second in a sequence of Fermilab’s particle accelerators—and then onto the 3km ring road that traces the tunnel that houses the Main Injector accelerator. Along the road are unfrozen ponds filled with water used for cooling research equipment, where Canada geese have taken up residence…
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Scientists Built A Robot From 40 Pigeon Feathers And It Flies Beautifully
Scientists seeking to understand the mechanics of bird flight have constructed PigeonBot, a robot made from 40 pigeon feathers (and a few other components).
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A Major New Particle Collider Is Coming To New York
The U.S. Department of Energy has decided on the final location of a major upcoming American particle collider: Brookhaven National Lab on Long Island in New York.
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Nearby Gas Clouds Actually Form Behemoth Structure That Might Be The Milky Way’s Arm, Study Finds
Astronomers have discovered that many of the star-forming regions we see in the sky actually seem to form an undulating, 8,800-light-year-long wave containing 3 million solar masses’ worth of gas that could make up our local arm of the Milky Way galaxy.