| 单词 | Fermi |
| 例句 | Fermi did a new set of calculations and called for another rod to be lifted. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the graphite Enrico Fermi used in his Chicago pile, heavy water can be used to slow down neutrons and create a chain reaction in uranium. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In October he visited in Chicago with Fermi, who had just flown in from Italy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In this cave, Heisenberg had been trying to build an atomic pile, similar to the one made by Enrico Fermi on the squash court in Chicago. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Walking alongside Woods, hunched against the cold, was the world-famous Italian physicist Enrico Fermi. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Robert Serber, who had carried Berkeley’s proposal to the GAC, had to acknowledge that Fermi had posed “the obvious question,” and that it was unanswerable. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When he informed Fermi by letter that his machine had produced a millicurie of radioactive sodium, Fermi scoffed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Only one cadmium rod remained in the pile; Fermi’s team called it the “zip” rod. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Woods and Fermi ducked through a gate leading into the football stadium. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At lunchtime came the word: it was Fermi. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Fermi and his team of about fifteen students and scientists assembled in the freezing squash court. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Compton and Lawrence shared an uneasiness about leaving Fermi’s reactor project at Columbia. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Not long afterward, Stimson named a scientific panel to advise the committee: Ernest Lawrence, Robert Oppenheimer, Arthur Compton, and Enrico Fermi. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Like Fermi, much of Oppenheimer’s scientific dream team was European, many of them Jews who had escaped from Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Progress on the atomic pile gave reason for optimism, but Fermi—unhappily relocated to Chicago on Compton’s orders—was still building only prototypes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For Fermi, this was a disappointment, and for Szilard, an all-too-familiar setback. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He seemed to think that Fermi had favored the Super. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Famous physicists were given code names—Enrico Fermi, for example, was supposed to tell people his name was Henry Farmer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Fermi’s associate Franco Rasetti came away from a brief visit in 1935 astonished at the “enormous superiority” of the twenty-seven-inch cyclotron for the production of neutrons, far beyond anything available in Europe. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But where Fermi had succeeded, Heisenberg had failed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “My dad says they evacuated all the buildings at Fermi. There’s police at all the entrances, and apparently there is going to be the Army or the National Guard, too. He’s at home already.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z His attempted poaching of Fermi succeeded only in provoking an outraged protest by Columbia to Bush, who forbade the move. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Large-scale production of 94 would require a uranium chain reaction, which Fermi had not yet achieved. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Szilard and Fermi, working in separate labs at Columbia University, came up with a figure closer to 2.0—still a large quantity under the circumstances. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A chain-reacting pile would be more efficient but still existed only in theory, for Fermi’s most recent prototype had produced less than one neutron per fission—a definite fizzle. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Woods and Fermi climbed up to a balcony high above the court. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In March, Enrico Fermi demonstrated that neutrons were the most effective inducers of radioactivity in elements heavier than phosphorus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But he was correct about the others: not even Oppenheimer had read the actual text before drafting the message to which Lawrence and Fermi had blindly signed their names. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It would be Fermi who delivered the final blow to his dream, at the General Advisory Committee’s meeting in October 1949—the same meeting that had produced the negative report on the Super. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When Teller said that Fermi would need tens of thousands of dollars to build a preliminary reactor to test conditions for a chain reaction, Adamson responded scornfully. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This, Fermi told Leslie Groves, would prevent a chain reaction from starting. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence’s campaign to add a nuclear reactor to Berkeley’s arsenal of atom-smashing technologies dated back to his wartime effort to wrest Enrico Fermi’s nuclear pile away from Arthur Compton and the University of Chicago. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The committee voted to send Fermi an initial grant of $6,000. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z With Fermi’s chain-reacting pile still undergoing its difficult gestation, for all they knew this was the only plutonium that would be seen for months, or even years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Leona Woods kept her eyes on the monitors, calling out measurements to Fermi. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s what Enrico Fermi and his team were trying to do in the squash court under the football stands in Chicago. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting in on a Berkeley seminar given by a group of Oppenheimer students in 1940, Fermi found himself unable to follow the mumbled discussion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “The controlled release of atomic power has been demonstrated for the first time in history,” Fermi said of his experiment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Enrico Fermi’s Chicago experiment had proved that it was possible to spark a chain reaction in uranium. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Fermi sat in a chair on the balcony. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, heavy water is more efficient than graphite—Fermi would have used heavy water if he could have gotten his hands on enough. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Fermi had yet to achieve a chain reaction, so the availability of plutonium was still in question. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On June 1, six months after Fermi’s achievement, Seaborg met with executives of DuPont, which had been cajoled by Groves into contracting to build a pilot plutonium separation plant at Oak Ridge. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This rather deliberate elision of Fermi’s role in neutron research was the prelude to a pitch for $2,250 “to increase the yield of neutron radiation tenfold or more.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z An important breakthrough occurred in a squash court under the west stands of the University of Chicago’s Stagg Field, where Enrico Fermi had erected an atomic pile. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “The scene of this test at the University of Chicago would have been confusing to an outsider,” Fermi later said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Fermi did some quick calculations in his notebook. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Fermi assured Groves he knew exactly what he was doing. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z To Szilard’s friend Enrico Fermi, the possibility of an explosive reaction was so remote that Szilard’s concerns seemed driven by paranoia, not physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That could come in as soon as eighteen months if Fermi’s program had full government support. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But Fermi had a hard time remembering his new name and felt absurd pronouncing it with his thick Italian accent. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Herb, Fermi and I went over to the apartment I shared with my sister,” Woods said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Fermi used graphite to slow down the speed- ing neutrons—he knew that neutrons would bounce off the carbon atoms that make up graphite and lose speed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z For Segre, a friend and collaborator of Enrico Fermi’s who was heading home to a professorship at Italy’s poverty-stricken University of Palermo, these pieces of radioactive shrapnel were priceless. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Plainly skeptical but unwilling to engage in a colloquy with a wheedling Teller, Fermi pleaded that he was too tired from the flight to give him a hearing, much less a commitment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z "Young man," Enrico Fermi replied when a student asked him the name of a particular particle, "if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Those outside Oppie’s charmed circle found it all rather bewildering— even Enrico Fermi, who should have recognized the behavior, since he was the object of similar veneration by his own students. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Fermi continued to contribute original scientific work throughout the war and postwar at the University of Chicago. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Fatefully, the Fermis sailed from Italy the same week that two Berlin radiochemists discovered nuclear fission. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z The Fermi telescope scans the sky for high-energy gamma-ray light, and the latest analysis shows unequivocally that it sees more light at the very center of our galaxy than expected. Deep space mystery: Dark matter may be destroying itself in Milky Way’s core 2014-04-10T12:45:00Z The signature of positrons has been detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray telescope above storms and the annihilation of this antimatter with normal matter builds the intensity of the gamma ray flashes. What goes on when lightning strikes? 2013-05-25T23:07:12Z The Fermi signal may not be due to dark matter at all, however. Deep space mystery: Dark matter may be destroying itself in Milky Way’s core 2014-04-10T12:45:00Z The physicist Enrico Fermi and others likened the furiously rising cloud in the New Mexico desert to a mushroom, and that became the shape now inextricably associated with nuclear explosions. How the Mushroom Cloud Boomed and Bloomed Across American Pop Culture 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z In the middle of lunch, Fermi asks the question: “But where are they?,” they being the extraterrestrials. An Astrophysical Approach to Our Environmental Crisis 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z The Great Filter Way back, about a century ago, physicist Enrico Fermi and his colleagues, taking a lunchbreak from the Manhattan Project, found themselves discussing life in the cosmos. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z Through the morning and early afternoon, wielding his slide rule, Fermi slowly took the pile critical, with a characteristically Fermian break for lunch. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Fermi was mocking concerns that the fission explosion of the bomb might trigger runaway fusion of the nitrogen that makes up over 70 percent of the air that surrounds the entire planet! "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Those familiar with the history of the United States’ nuclear program will recognize many names, locations and story twists: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Gen. Leslie Groves, Enrico Fermi, Leona Woods, Niels Bohr, Ernest Lawrence and others. A Forgotten Town at the Center of the Manhattan Project 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z One of the first physicists to realize that the big bang could not have made any elements heavier than lithium was Italian Nobel-Prize winning scientist Enrico Fermi. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Measuring the radioactivity induced in the manganese would tell Fermi if the fissions were multiplying. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z On Wednesday, the two Republican congressmen held a round table on the underground particle-physics program at Fermi. Fermilab poised to hit the off switch 2011-09-30T14:41:00Z Fermi, who loved American idioms, called his creation a “pile.” A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z With a subject like Fermi, that restriction is a limit but hardly a loss. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z His question has been called the Great Silence, the SETI Dilemma or Fermi Paradox. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z The thoughtful nods to South Side heritage and culture — design elements honor local luminaries such as singer Mahalia Jackson, novelist Saul Bellow and scientist Enrico Fermi — reinforce the you’re-in-Hyde Park vibe. Instead of the Magnificent Mile, head to Hyde Park for a real sense of Chicago 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z As the eminent physicist Enrico Fermi once put it, "Where is everybody?" The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies | Book review 2010-03-28T00:15:00Z Indeed, here is a solution to the Fermi paradox: the aliens have detected us, but don’t want to come close, for fear of Earth’s smell. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z And every scientist who shows promise — Einstein, Fermi, you name ’em — disappears from public view in short order. Review: ‘April and the Extraordinary World,’ Animated Sci-Fi From France 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Several science winners, from Enrico Fermi to Murray Gell-Mann, had their findings initially rejected. Not so fast: Many Nobel winners endured initial rejections 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z People who are intrigued by Fermi will be happy to learn about this wonderful resource. Letters to the Editor 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Over 10 dozen pat “explanations for the Fermi Paradox” have been offered. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z There are endless possible explanations for the so-called Fermi paradox, among them that aliens may be as exploitative and violent as we are. Some experts warn against contacting aliens. Are the fears of an extraterrestrial invasion valid? 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z Now, for the first time, Austrian scientists led by Rudolf Grimm have been able to observe in experiments how Fermi polarons -- a special type of quasiparticle -- can interact with each other. Physicists simulate interacting quasiparticles in ultracold quantum gas 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z First detected by Fermi in March, it is the second brightest GRB observed in over 50 years of observations, about 1,000 times brighter than a typical gamma-ray burst that Fermi observes. First detection of heavy element from star merger 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z So she worked in Chicago, was Kay in that Fermi group? Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out against the Bomb She Helped Create 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z Physicists at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory last week released a new measurement of the magnetism of a particle called the muon, a heavier, unstable cousin of the electron. News at a glance: A win for young climate activists, a research suspension, and China’s mpox surge 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Fermi and other leading physicists understood that its incredible power meant it could only be a weapon of genocide. Column: 'Oppenheimer' is a great movie, but commits these historical blunders 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z Recruited to the Manhattan Project straight out of college, she collected blood samples from many Manhattan Project scientists, including the renowned physicist Enrico Fermi. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z The idea of unifying forces, which is so essential to physics today, grew out of the discovery of Fermi’s ‘weak force’ that the neutrino feels. The Most Surprising Discoveries in Physics 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Huang: She wasn't in Enrico Fermi’s group, but she worked with a lot of Fermi’s data. Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out against the Bomb She Helped Create 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z Enrico Fermi's group was working to create a self-sustaining chain reaction, the first crucial step in creating an atomic bomb. What the Film Oppenheimer Probably Will Not Talk About: The Lost Women of the Manhattan Project 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Matter that is below its Fermi temperature can obey remarkably universal laws. Ultracold Gases Can Probe Neutron Star Guts 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z One of those scientists was the renowned Italian physicist Enrico Fermi. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Elizabeth A. Hays, the project scientist for NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, said IceCube will provide a new and different view. Neutrinos Build a Ghostly Map of the Milky Way 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Instead, we would like to propose a new way of thinking about the Fermi paradox. Most Aliens May Be Artificial Intelligence, Not Life as We Know It 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Leona married fellow physicist John Marshall and when she became pregnant in 1943, she decided to keep it a secret from the head of the Chicago Pile operations with Enrico Fermi as a co-conspirator. What the Film Oppenheimer Probably Will Not Talk About: The Lost Women of the Manhattan Project 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z But they can share at least one useful characteristic: They are both below a threshold known as the Fermi temperature that depends on — and is calculated based on — the matter each system is made of. Ultracold Gases Can Probe Neutron Star Guts 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Fermi led a group that was building an experimental nuclear reactor beneath the football field at the University of Chicago. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z But in 1979, Argonne shut down its proton accelerator, which had been superseded by a much bigger, new one at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 50 kilometers away. A farewell to the x-ray–generating particle accelerator that was my father’s baby 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z The question then becomes whether the fact that electronic civilizations can live for billions of years seriously exacerbates the Fermi paradox. Most Aliens May Be Artificial Intelligence, Not Life as We Know It 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z She writes at one point that she told Enrico Fermi that his book on thermodynamics was “good as a baby book.” What the Film Oppenheimer Probably Will Not Talk About: The Lost Women of the Manhattan Project 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z But operating together inside a mega-constellation of many thousands of satellites, the power of such a system would rival Swift and Fermi, two gamma-ray observatories in space that are managed by NASA. Satellites Threaten Astronomy, but a Few Scientists See an Opportunity 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z And as you heard in the previous episode, it was there that Fermi and his team created the first sustained nuclear chain reaction. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z The prior year she had proved Enrico Fermi's theory of beta decay after more than a decade of attempts by others. The Little-Known Origin Story behind the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z While most of us who are puzzled by the Fermi paradox and the absence of alien signs imagine other civilizations as being expansionist and aggressive, this is not necessarily the case. Most Aliens May Be Artificial Intelligence, Not Life as We Know It 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z She held fellowships at the University of Chicago's Institute for Nuclear Studies – now named, appropriately enough, the Enrico Fermi Institute–and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. What the Film Oppenheimer Probably Will Not Talk About: The Lost Women of the Manhattan Project 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Named for the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi, it essentially boils down to math. Are we too primitive for aliens to bother with us? Some scientists think so 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Because of the highly classified nature of the Manhattan Project, Aggie had no idea who Fermi was when he came to Los Alamos. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z The building blocks of matter are called fermions, after the great physicist Enrico Fermi. Rule-Breaking Particles Pop Up in Experiments around the World 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z The Fermi paradox takes its name from a 1950s visit by physicist Enrico Fermi to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Most Aliens May Be Artificial Intelligence, Not Life as We Know It 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z The most important influence on her life, she writes: Enrico Fermi. What the Film Oppenheimer Probably Will Not Talk About: The Lost Women of the Manhattan Project 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z There have been many attempts to explain the Fermi paradox. Are we too primitive for aliens to bother with us? Some scientists think so 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Anyway, after the bomb was dropped, the GI's who worked at the laboratory came up and shook my hand and said, “You were the person who stuck the hand of the great Enrico Fermi.” This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Coincidentally, it happened to arrive at the same moment when gamma-ray astronomers were gathered in the South African city of Johannesburg for the 10th Fermi Symposium. Earth just got zapped by the biggest gamma-ray burst of all time 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z While dining later, Fermi suddenly returned to the topic of aliens by asking: “Where is everybody?” Most Aliens May Be Artificial Intelligence, Not Life as We Know It 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Foster, a former scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, said Congress was familiar with zombies. Lawmakers believe scientists are closer to discovering ‘fountain of youth’ 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Since the 1950s, one of the defining ideas in the search for extraterrestrials has been the Fermi Paradox, named after the Italian American physicist Enrico Fermi. The Search for Intelligent Life Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z At a party one night, before Fermi returned to Chicago, he approached her. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Munroe fields the question with his characteristic wit, even while turning to the art of “Fermi estimation” to arrive at some ballpark numbers. The world’s funniest former NASA roboticist will take your questions 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Over the years that have passed since Fermi asked his question, dozens of potential solutions to the “paradox” have been suggested. Most Aliens May Be Artificial Intelligence, Not Life as We Know It 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Part of Fermi’s theory was the identification of the weak nuclear force as being distinct from the strong nuclear force and in fact responsible for beta decay. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Faced with such a prospect, physicist Enrico Fermi asked a question several decades ago that is now called the Fermi paradox: where are they? Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z High-energy physicists at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois—DOE’s only high-energy physics lab—are gearing up to build a massive neutrino experiment. U.S. Department of Energy research gets a surprise boost in inflation-reduction bill 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z If the rate of that hard-to-see decay varies from predictions, the deviation could point to new particles hiding in the vacuum, says Marcela Carena, a theorist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare of finding nothing else 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Last year, a team of some 200 physicists associated with the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois reported that muons spinning in a magnetic field had wobbled significantly faster than predicted by the Standard Model. As the Large Hadron Collider Revs Up, Physicists’ Hopes Soar 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Figure 32.20 This array of photomultiplier tubes is part of the large solar neutrino detector at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Several solutions have been suggested to the Fermi paradox. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Today such a proof of concept would have to rely on the gamma-ray data collected by Fermi LAT—which isn’t up to the task, according to Fornengo and his colleagues. Astronomers Might See Dark Matter by Staring into the Void 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z The Democrat and Chronicle reported the teachers worked at Enrico Fermi School 17, which has a large percentage of Black and Hispanic students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. Upstate New York teachers put on leave after offensive texts 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z In order to make the new measurement of the W boson's mass, researchers used collision data from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, a now out-of-service particle accelerator in Illinois. "No smoking gun" for particle experiment that, if true, would upend physics 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Fermi, among others, soon found that not only did neutrons induce fission; more neutrons were produced during fission. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z The Fermi paradox asks why, if life is common, more advanced life-forms have not contacted us. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z “It would be a great addition to have a ‘new Fermi,’” Fornengo says, although he acknowledges that, for now, such a detector only exists in their dreams. Astronomers Might See Dark Matter by Staring into the Void 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z A new study reveals that data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope can, in theory, also sense a passing wave. Astronomers find a new way to detect gravitational waves 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Not that much, but it’s enough,” said Giorgio Chiarelli, another scientist for the Fermi team and research director for the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics. Key particle weighs in a bit heavy, confounding physicists 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z The first major step was made by Enrico Fermi and his group in December 1942, when they achieved the first self-sustained nuclear reactor. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z What are some answers to the Fermi paradox? Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z In fact, the Fermi telescope does see an excess of gamma-ray light at the center of the Milky Way. Are Telescopes the Only Way to Find Dark Matter? 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z They searched through 12.5 years of Fermi’s archive for gamma ray photons from about 30 suitable pulsars. Astronomers find a new way to detect gravitational waves 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z “It’s an incredibly delicate measurement, it requires understanding of various calibrations of various little effects,” said Claudio Campagnari, a particle physicist at the University of California Santa Barbara, who wasn’t part of the Fermi team. Key particle weighs in a bit heavy, confounding physicists 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Running the simulation took years in total, with the final calculations taking place in 1955, after Fermi’s death. An Unsung Female Pioneer of Computer Simulation 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z The combined observations from LIGO, Virgo, Fermi, and Swift showed that this source was located in NGC 4993, a galaxy at a distance of about 130 million light-years in the direction of the constellation Hydra. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Scientists have also used the Fermi telescope to look for evidence of axions. Are Telescopes the Only Way to Find Dark Matter? 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Unlike the radio PTAs, which must target specific pulsars for brief windows of time, Fermi constantly watches a large swath of the sky, so several pulsars are almost always in view. Astronomers find a new way to detect gravitational waves 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z “It’s not just something is wrong,” said Dave Toback, a particle physicist at Texas A&M University and a spokesperson for the U.S. government’s Fermi National Accelerator Lab, which conducted the experiments. Key particle weighs in a bit heavy, confounding physicists 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z It was then that she began working with Fermi, Pasta and Ulam in a theoretical group that had been given use of the MANIAC, and she became instrumental in a groundbreaking experiment. An Unsung Female Pioneer of Computer Simulation 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Giant bubbles shining in gamma-ray light lie above and below the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, as seen by the Fermi satellite. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z If we found a photo album with high-resolution images from that time, we would have an affirmative answer to Enrico Fermi’s paradox: “Where is everybody?” To Look or Not to Look? That Is the Question 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z But photons in the gamma range are so rare, “Fermi can look all week and see no photons,” Kerr says. Astronomers find a new way to detect gravitational waves 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Contemplating Fermi problems keeps me curious about the world and how things relate to one another. How to Solve Any Problem Using Just Common Sense 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Fermi, Pasta, and Ulam thought the energy would spread out along the chain and eventually reach equilibrium, but it kept moving, never settling anywhere. An Unsung Female Pioneer of Computer Simulation 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z As Enrico Fermi’s famous paradox asked, if aliens are out there, why haven’t we seen them? Opinion | I Created ‘The X-Files.’ Here’s Why I’m Skeptical of the New U.F.O. Report. 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Hence, it’s a profound mystery — known as the Fermi Paradox, after the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi — why we haven’t yet seen any such aliens. Perspective | Contacting aliens could end all life on earth. Let’s stop trying. 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Still, the team reports today in Science, their trawl through the Fermi archive turned up enough photons to make a gamma ray PTA. Astronomers find a new way to detect gravitational waves 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z I could argue for the practical benefits of a Fermi mind-set, but that’s not why I love these questions. How to Solve Any Problem Using Just Common Sense 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Embryonic quantum networks are also being built in the Boston, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., regions, and two networks will link Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois to several Chicago-area universities. New internet woven from ‘spooky’ quantum links could supercharge science and commerce 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z In April a team of physicists at Fermi National Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., announced anomalous behavior in the magnetic wiggle of the muon. The Subatomic Keys to the Universe 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Yet another instrument, also on Fermi, caught a few gamma rays at even higher energies starting 19 seconds after the main event. Nature’s most magnetic objects, ripped apart in starquakes, can unleash powerful flashes of light 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z “So, if Fermi doesn’t fall out of the sky, we will have comparable sensitivity” in 5 to 10 years, he says. Astronomers find a new way to detect gravitational waves 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Muon g-2 is an experiment at Fermi National Laboratory in Batavia, Ill, that aims to precisely measure how magnetic muons are by watching them wobble in a magnetic field. Long-Awaited Muon Measurement Boosts Evidence for New Physics 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Davidon, a physicist who had worked at the Enrico Fermi Institute and the Argonne National Lab and became increasingly opposed to nuclear proliferation and the war, was the group’s strategist. Perspective | The Ali-Frazier 1971 ‘Fight of the Century’ provided cover for a mission to expose the FBI 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z A Chinese-American physicist whose name many people have never heard will soon share a rare honor typically bestowed on the field’s mononymous greats: Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman. Postage stamp to honor female physicist who many say should have won the Nobel Prize 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Also, Swift and Fermi are optimized to capture the longer, higher energy gamma ray bursts that hail from the collapse of massive stars. China launches gamma ray–hunting satellites to trace sources of gravitational waves 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Discovering that Fermi could do this “was a big surprise for us,” says team leader Matthew Kerr, a gamma ray astronomer at the Naval Research Laboratory. Astronomers find a new way to detect gravitational waves 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Through better behavior, it is in our power to exclude this possible explanation for not hearing from them—the so-called Fermi paradox. The Empty Half of the Glass May Also Be Full 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z In July, for example, DOE announced it would build a prototype quantum network to connect Argonne National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and the University of Chicago. Trump has shown little respect for U.S. science. So why are some parts thriving? 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z There is a catch though, and it relates to the well-worn ideas of the Fermi paradox. It's the End of the World ... Somewhere 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z GECAM’s observational energy range extends down to 6 kiloelectronvolts, lower than Swift and Fermi, which may be an advantage spotting the “softer” gamma ray bursts associated with gravitational waves, Xiong says. China launches gamma ray–hunting satellites to trace sources of gravitational waves 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Fermi posits that if there are so many galaxies and billions of stars, there’s a good chance that other civilizations exist. The Fermi Paradox and the possibility of another coronavirus relief bill 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z There might be hidden wisdom for us to discover in Fermi’s paradox. Social Distancing on a Cosmic Scale 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z The researchers used NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory to look at the galaxy to get a better idea of what it looks like. NASA finds active 'Star Wars' galaxy in deep space 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z The Department of Energy’s quantum information science research centers will be established with the Argonne, Brookhaven, Fermi, Oak Ridge, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. Trump administration investing $1 billion to build new AI and quantum information science institutes 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z The five research hubs are each led by the Energy Department’s Argonne, Brookhaven, Fermi, Lawrence Berkeley and Oak Ridge national laboratories. U.S. to spend $625 million in five quantum information research hubs 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z There’s a tradition among high-energy physicists and string theorists, that really goes back to Enrico Fermi, that’s not very positive towards maths. The mathematician who helped to reshape physics 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z Too powerful to be deployed as a practical weapon in warfare even according to Pentagon reasoning, “it becomes a weapon which in practical effect is almost one of genocide,” Fermi wrote in a public statement. Column: 75 years ago today, the Trinity A-Bomb test ushered in the era of nuclear warfare 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z As the great physicist Enrico Fermi once asked, “Where is everybody?” Going Viral, or Not, in the Milky Way 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Let’s go back to Fermi’s paradox for a minute and borrow its logic: If the extraterrestrials are so hell-bent on destroying other species, then why aren’t they already here? We Should Message Extraterrestrial Civilizations, Not Just Listen for Them 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory—the United States’s dedicated particle physics laboratory—is closed to the public starting tomorrow, as is the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility—a nuclear physics lab. Amid pandemic, Energy Department labs close to tens of thousands of users 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z Midwest after that project went to Texas instead of being built at the existing Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory just west of Chicago. Scientists Must Stand Up for Internationalism 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z The first detections started about one minute after the burst triggered NASA’s two spaceborne GRB detectors: the Burst Alert Telescope on board the Swift satellite and the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor on board the Fermi satellite. Extreme emission seen from γ-ray bursts 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z In fact, when the researchers injected a simulated dark matter signal into the real Fermi data, their analysis did not necessarily find it, they report in a paper in press at Physical Review Letters. Physicists revive hunt for dark matter in the heart of the Milky Way 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z As we’ve seen with studying the ideas of the so-called Fermi Paradox, in principle it’s pretty ‘easy’ for interstellar explorers to spread across the galaxy given a few million years. Interstellar Conversations 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z The argument is an attempt to explain the Fermi Paradox, a decades-old thought experiment. Trillions of alien ‘robot probes’ may be in space but are too small for NASA to spot, shock paper claims 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi famously said something to the effect of, "But where is everybody?" in reference to the possibility of star-hopping space aliens. Alien civilizations may have explored the Milky Way and visited Earth already, new study claims 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z A Cantonese social worker, Fermi Wong, bailed Andrews out of jail that night. As China pushes in, Hong Kong’s first ethnic minority social worker wants a future for everyone 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z One reason this gets to me is because of something called "Fermi's Paradox." No E.T. Life Yet? 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z “We talked a lot about Fermi estimation, which is essentially taking whatever instance you’re talking about and using rough generalizations and calculations that you can do in your head,” Harding said. Misinformation is everywhere. These scientists can teach you to fight BS. 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z And Enrico Fermi and Robert Oppenheimer, both of whom were leaders of the Manhattan Project, trained as postdoctoral fellows in Ehrenfest’s lab at Leiden University. The forgotten physicist: the perils of being Paul Ehrenfest 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z The next year, as a 22-year-old postdoc with Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago, Illinois, he tackled a knotty problem. Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019) 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z But if I’m right, and Fermi was wrong, maybe you’re not from this planet, so I’m explaining it for you. It’s all my fault, or the Beanstalk sucks 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z So as Enrico Fermi famously asked: "Where are they?" No E.T. Life Yet? 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Named after the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi, this gut-check technique requires little more than common sense, a pen and a cocktail napkin. Misinformation is everywhere. These scientists can teach you to fight BS. 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z In just 13 months, a team led by Italian physicist Enrico Fermi completed design and construction of the B-reactor, the first of its kind on the planet. Hanford cleanup’s frustrating, yet astonishing, achievements 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z The Fermi Paradox is sometimes known as the Great Silence. Science Fiction Doesn’t Have to Be Dystopian 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Two huge structures, known as Fermi bubbles, are located above and below the plane of our Galaxy1, and are centred on the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Centre. X-ray chimneys in the Galactic Centre 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Then there is the third set of solutions to Fermi's paradox. No E.T. Life Yet? 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Fermi estimation provides a reasonable approximation, not a precise answer. Misinformation is everywhere. These scientists can teach you to fight BS. 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z At a recent meeting in Chicago, Josh Frieman, a theorist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., asked: “At what point do we claim the discovery of new physics?” Have Dark Forces Been Messing With the Cosmos? 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Fermi, Segrè and the rest of the Boys took the idea one step further by bombarding a sample of uranium — element 92, the heaviest known element at that time — with an improvised neutron beam. The first synthetic element 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Ponti et al.2 now report X-ray observations that reveal two ‘chimney’ structures that seem to connect the inner lobes to the Fermi bubbles. X-ray chimneys in the Galactic Centre 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z This is where Fermi's Paradox gets really depressing. No E.T. Life Yet? 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Then, in 1938, Meitner and Hahn realized that one of the elements Fermi had made was barium, and that the uranium nucleus had indeed split. Celebrate the women behind the periodic table 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Energy Department’s Enrico Fermi Award in 1992 for his lifetime contributions to national security. Harold Brown, Carter defense secretary who advocated arms buildup, dies at 91 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z In November, Fermi won the Nobel prize for his discovery of elements beyond uranium. The first synthetic element 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z The chimney structures connect these lobes to the Fermi bubbles, which start from about 100 parsecs above the Galactic plane and occupy a huge region approaching the size of the Galaxy itself. X-ray chimneys in the Galactic Centre 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z The Monroe News reports DTE Energy’s Fermi 2 plant in Monroe County was synchronized to the electrical grid on Tuesday. Fermi 2 nuclear plant is back online following repairs 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z In 1934, physicist Enrico Fermi and his co-workers at the University of Rome announced that they had produced elements 93 and 94 by firing neutrons at uranium. Celebrate the women behind the periodic table 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Just days before the government closed, she and her colleagues at the Fermi space telescope observed a pulsar flashing in an unprecedented way. Disruptive, disappointing, chaotic: Shutdown upends scientific research 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Fermi, whose wife was Jewish, used the prize as a pretext by which to escape Italy, too. The first synthetic element 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Ponti and colleagues suggest that the chimneys might transport energy from the active region of the Galactic Centre to the Fermi bubbles. X-ray chimneys in the Galactic Centre 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z The latest observations, collected over nine years by Nasa’s Fermi space telescope, use the light from blazars – super-massive black holes that emit powerful jets of gamma rays – as beacons to illuminate the cosmic fog. Astronomers measure total starlight emitted over 13.7bn years 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Her north-central Illinois district is home to DOE’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, a world leader in high-energy physics. STEM candidates elected to U.S. House prepare for their new jobs 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The exchange was started last year and includes the University of Chicago, the Argonne National Laboratory and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Chicago-area researchers study quantum computing 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z More than 1,200 supplemental workers were at Fermi for the outage. Fermi 2 nuclear plant online after refueling, maintenance 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Fermi is already 10 years old and exceeded its original mission by five years. As NASA’s prized telescopes falter, astronomers fear losing their eyes in space 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Department of Energy labs—Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory—Underwood says she wasn’t surprised that her opponents included two engineers. Lauren Underwood runs on progressive values in seeking House seat 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The odds of that happening and being seen by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are around 1 percent. Mysterious 'ghost' radio emissions have been found - and no one knows what's causing them 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Which is easy, because you only need an expert’s knowledge of Riemann’s Hypothesis, the Fermi Paradox, and orbital mechanics in order to understand their qualifying system. Introducing the 'Ryder Cup Radicals' Email Exchange: The high stakes at the PGA Championship edition - Golf Digest 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Another question, which will be of interest to both optical and condensed-matter physicists, is how to engineer the range of propagation directions — and, in turn, the Fermi arcs — to achieve greater control of negative refraction. Reflection forbidden and refraction reversed in an artificial crystal 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z The Monroe News reports Tuesday that Fermi 2 in Monroe County was powered up after being cut back last week to 60 percent power. Fermi 2 plant in Michigan back at full power after repairs 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z The Monroe News reports Fermi 2 in Monroe County was cut back this week to 60 percent power. Fermi 2 nuclear plant in Michigan at lower power for repairs 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z The nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi was famous for posing thought provoking questions. Are we alone? A question worthy of serious scientific study 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z In 1950 Enrico Fermi, an Italian-born American Nobel prize-winning physicist, posed a very simple question with profound implications for one of the most important scientific puzzles: whether or not life exists beyond Earth. Aliens may not exist – but that’s good news for our survival | Jim Al-Khalili 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z The topological surface states in this material cannot propagate in all directions; propagation is confined to a certain range of directions, which connect to form what are known as Fermi arcs6. Reflection forbidden and refraction reversed in an artificial crystal 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Physicists are both thrilled and baffled by a new report from a neutrino experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago. Evidence for a new fundamental particle thrills and baffles physicists 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The Monroe News reports that DTE Energy filed for a property tax reduction for its Fermi 2 nuclear plant with the Michigan Tax Tribunal. DTE Energy seeks property tax reduction for nuclear plant 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z In 1950, at Los Alamos National Laboratory after discussing UFOs over lunch, Fermi asked, “Where is everybody?” Are we alone? A question worthy of serious scientific study 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z At another school, Enrico Fermi Elementary School No. 17, the suspension rate dropped by 35 percent in one year. Teaching Gandhi’s Nonviolent Principles in a Violent Time 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Historian Richard Rhodes says that Fermi and his colleagues were risking “a small Chernobyl in the midst of a crowded city.” Opinion | If Iran wants nuclear weapons, it will get them 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Fermi 2 supplies 20 percent of the electricity generated by DTE. Fermi 2 nuclear plant is down after transformer problem 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Officials confirmed the Monroe coal plant filing was made at the same time as the Fermi request, but details haven’t been made available. DTE Energy seeks property tax reduction for nuclear plant 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z This discrepancy between the expectation that there should be evidence of alien civilizations or visitations and the presumption that no visitations have been observed has been dubbed the Fermi Paradox. Are we alone? A question worthy of serious scientific study 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Haldane, F. D. M. Berry curvature on the Fermi surface: anomalous Hall effect as a topological Fermi-liquid property. Massive Dirac fermions in a ferromagnetic kagome metal 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z A few months later Stephen Hawking came to the US from Cambridge to give a lecture at Chicago’s Fermi Institute, so I arranged to meet him afterwards at the Holiday Inn, where Stephen was staying. A brief history of Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Fermi 2 was running for 359 consecutive days before the shutdown. Fermi 2 nuclear plant is down after transformer problem 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z To put it more succinctly, as the nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi did more than a half century ago, “Where are they?” It's Never Aliens--until It Is 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z As the physicist Enrico Fermi asked, “Where is everybody?” Are Alien Civilizations Technologically Advanced? 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Fermi was once described by a student as the last man who knew everything. Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The restricted zone identified on the fliers included the west side of Enrico Fermi Drive from Airway Road to Via de la Amistad. County banned 'implements of riot' near Trump's border wall prototypes 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z DTE Energy says Fermi 2 in Monroe County is in a “safe, stable condition.” Fermi 2 nuclear plant is down after transformer problem 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Given a 10-billion-year-old galaxy filled with stars and planets, and an Earth less than half that age, Fermi guessed we are unlikely to be the first technological culture on the galactic stage. It's Never Aliens--until It Is 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi contributed to the discovery of nuclear fission and was part of the Manhattan Project, which built the first atomic bombs. The doubly dextrous physics of Enrico Fermi Fermi was, by that stage, already a celebrity among physicists. Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z In earlier studies, Fermi had found that uranium nuclei would absorb neutrons more easily if the neutrons were moving relatively slowly. Atomic Age Began 75 Years Ago with the First Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z By 1942, a team that included Szilard and Nobel Prize winners Enrico Fermi and Arthur Compton had assembled in Chicago to build the world's first nuclear reactor. The atomic age began with a secret test 75 years ago. Meet the last surviving witness. 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z First results on terrestrial gamma ray flashes from the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor. Photonuclear reactions triggered by lightning discharge 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Until a few years ago, Fermi featured in only two full-length accounts. The doubly dextrous physics of Enrico Fermi Such back-of-the-envelope calculations, which became known as “Fermi problems”, were such good examples of critical thinking that recruiters nowadays test applicants’ mettle by setting them as interview questions. Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z At every step of the process Fermi calculated the expected neutron emission, and slowly removed a control rod to confirm his expectations. Atomic Age Began 75 Years Ago with the First Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Fermi positioned himself at the base, calling out orders and making calculations with a slide rule. The atomic age began with a secret test 75 years ago. Meet the last surviving witness. 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Though the team’s measurements are solid, their interpretation of the data is problematic, says Dan Hooper of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Mysterious Particles Are Slamming Into Earth—But Why? 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z In 1954, the year he died, his wife Laura Fermi published Atoms in the Family, a charming, sometimes cheeky account of their marriage and family life. The doubly dextrous physics of Enrico Fermi His father left some intriguing correspondence on Fermi, which inspired Mr Schwartz to learn more. Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Right away, Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner and others recognized the importance of these so-called “delayed neutrons” in controlling the chain reaction. Atomic Age Began 75 Years Ago with the First Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z After 28 minutes, when the radiation risk from the reaction became unsafe, Fermi ordered the control rods dropped back into the pile. The atomic age began with a secret test 75 years ago. Meet the last surviving witness. 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z More than 1 metre tall, it has six discs that point towards the latest γ-ray bursts using real-time data from three satellites — Integral, Fermi and Swift. Disaster preparedness: Risk, rout and ruination : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z At the same time, Fermi and Laura heartily joined in the social life of Bathtub Row, the street where J. Robert Oppenheimer and other project members lived. The doubly dextrous physics of Enrico Fermi Yet for all his gregariousness Fermi tended to reveal little of his emotions in conversations or correspondence, even as he worked on the team to develop humanity’s most terrible weapons. Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The science has come a long way since Szilard’s vision and Fermi’s proof of a controlled nuclear chain reaction. Atomic Age Began 75 Years Ago with the First Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Fermi was confident he could control the reaction; if anything went awry, he told his colleagues, “I will walk away — leisurely.” The atomic age began with a secret test 75 years ago. Meet the last surviving witness. 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The idea is intriguing, says psychologist Douglas Vakoch, president of the San Francisco, California–based Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, though he believes there’s no need to invoke the Fermi paradox. Why haven’t we had alien contact? Blame icy ocean worlds 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z In my view, for instance, there is no need to ponder whether Fermi should be called the father of the nuclear age. The doubly dextrous physics of Enrico Fermi Just 1.7 seconds after the initial gravitational wave detection, NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope registered a brief flash of gamma radiation coming from the constellation Hydra. Scientists detect gravitational waves from a new kind of nova, sparking a new era in astronomy 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The cadmium control rods made sure the process wouldn’t continue indefinitely, because Fermi and his team could choose exactly how and where to insert them to control the chain reaction. Atomic Age Began 75 Years Ago with the First Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Together, the alerts from LIGO–Virgo and Fermi sent astronomers into a frenzied rush. Colliding stars spark rush to solve cosmic mysteries 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Two seconds after the gravitational signal, which only the automated "trigger" of the Hanford detector initially noticed, NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope picked up a blast of high-energy photons called a gamma-ray burst. Merging neutron stars generate gravitational waves and a celestial light show 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z An obvious example is the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to Enrico Fermi for work that led to the discovery of nuclear fission. The Long Nuclear History Behind the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z The site is about 1.5 miles east of Erico Fermi Drive on open land that is a mixture of public and private ownership. Construction begins on Trump's border wall prototypes in Otay Mesa 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Astronomers, who do not want to be identified, say that NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is rumoured to have spotted γ-rays emerging from the same region of sky as the potential gravitational-wave source. Rumours swell over new kind of gravitational-wave sighting 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Only one breeder reactor ever went into commercial operation in the U.S. — the Enrico Fermi I near Detroit, which suffered a partial core meltdown in 1966. That 'wonder fuel' at Idaho National Lab is now radioactive waste that won't go away 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z McEnery says she found out about the gravitational signal as a coy rumor from a colleague who works on both Fermi and LIGO. Merging neutron stars generate gravitational waves and a celestial light show 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z His colleagues chuckled, but the “Fermi paradox” perfectly frames the profound absurdity of the search for life beyond Earth. Opinion | The never-ending search for UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Three years later, Italian physicist Enrico Fermi dubbed the hypothetical particle the neutrino. Weighing the universe's most elusive particle 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z A senior Fermi member declined to comment on this possibility. Rumours swell over new kind of gravitational-wave sighting 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Other, more benign, explanations for the Fermi Paradox exist. Greetings, E.T. (Please Don’t Murder Us.) 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Fermi, the Italian physicist who created the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, was also known for his eerily accurate approximations, which he made by replacing each variable in a problem with a reasonable assumption. How to Call B.S. on Big Data: A Practical Guide 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z Hynek’s tale unfolds a few years before Fermi posed his question, when aliens were much on the minds of Americans. Opinion | The never-ending search for UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z But, in developing a fuller theory of beta decay, Fermi immediately realized that the electrons' energy spectrum holds a clue to a key property of the neutrino: its mass. Weighing the universe's most elusive particle 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z She said eagles nest at the Greenwood Energy Center near Avoca and the Fermi and Monroe power plants. Bald eagles settle down at Belle River plant 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Fermi’s question, apparently raised during a lunch conversation at Los Alamos in the early 1950s, was a simple one: ‘‘Where is everybody?’’ Greetings, E.T. (Please Don’t Murder Us.) 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z In 1969, Robert Wilson, the first director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, near Chicago, was asked by Congress whether the huge particle accelerator being built there would contribute to “the national defense.” What Is Science Good For? 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z The particles hunted by the new experiment, at the Fermi National Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, comprise part of the virtual soup that surrounds and interacts with all forms of matter. Muons’ big moment could fuel new physics 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z She did her PhD, on the properties of superconductors in a magnetic field, at the University of Chicago, Illinois, with nuclear-physics Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi. Mildred S. Dresselhaus (1930-2017) : Nature : Nature Research 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z In 1995, seven years before he died, he received the prestigious Enrico Fermi Award for lifetime achievement. Oscars, Kim Jong-nam, Mobile World Congress: Your Monday Briefing 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z During the session, Drake shared his musings on the Fermi Paradox, formulated as an equation. Greetings, E.T. (Please Don’t Murder Us.) 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z In 1995, seven years before his death, he received the prestigious Enrico Fermi Award for lifetime achievement. Oscars, Boris Nemtsov, Nokia: Your Monday Briefing 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Dr. Dresselhaus earned a master’s degree from Radcliffe College and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where she studied under the celebrated physicist Enrico Fermi. Mildred Dresselhaus, the Queen of Carbon, Dies at 86 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z He studied physics at the University of Chicago under Enrico Fermi, the Nobel laureate who created the world’s first controlled nuclear chain reaction under an abandoned university football stadium. Arthur Rosenfeld, Zealous Champion of Energy Efficiency, Dies at 90 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z For his achievement, Dr. Goldwasser received a gift of Chianti wine, the same brand with which Enrico Fermi and his team celebrated when they created the first controlled nuclear reaction in 1942. Edwin Goldwasser, Physicist Who Co-Founded Fermilab, Dies at 97 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z The physicist Enrico Fermi said scientists possessed “no proprietary rights” to their creations. Lives and Profits in the Balance: The High Stakes of Medical Patents 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Internal documents show the commission originally planned to extend the Fermi 2 nuclear energy facility’s license Tuesday. Michigan nuclear power plant’s license extension on hold 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z And 26-year-old Enrico Fermi, a professor of theoretical physics, was Il Papa — the Pope — because he seemed to be infallible. A physicist so infallible, they called him the Pope 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Her research made textbook models a scientific reality, including ideal Fermi gases and the crossover between Bose–Einstein condensation and the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer theory of superconductivity. Deborah S. Jin 1968-2016 : Nature : Nature Research 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z The authors engagingly describe how Fermi taught himself basic mathematics and physics to a high standard by the time he was 17. Physics: Fallible pontiff of physics : Nature : Nature Research 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z He received a doctoral degree from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller and Murray Gell-Mann. James Cronin, Who Explained Why Matter Survived the Big Bang, Dies at 84 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z He then began graduate school at the University of Chicago, whose faculty included many of the United States’ physics luminaries, including Enrico Fermi and Edward Teller. James Cronin, Nobel laureate who overturned long-accepted beliefs about the fundamental symmetry of laws of physics , dies at 84 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z At Fermi High School, Carlson was class president and, foreshadowing his entrepreneurial spirit, started a school newspaper called “The Pulse.” Enfield native opens ‘50s-style diners in France 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Cautious excitement about the bump was driven by its potential payout, says Don Lincoln, a physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Batavia, Illinois. Hopes for revolutionary new LHC particle dashed 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The authors describe movingly how the rise of Fascism in Italy led the Fermi family to emigrate to the United States. Physics: Fallible pontiff of physics : Nature : Nature Research 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z “What’s significant about Fermi is if you look through his career, he never just did the same thing,” Dr. Cronin once said. James Cronin, Who Explained Why Matter Survived the Big Bang, Dies at 84 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z My most treasured memories were watching my dad play basketball on the courts of Fermi Elementary School and developing my game at the Blue Island Recreation Center. Wade’s letter to Miami, after he decides to go to Chicago 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z The latest example was a half-mile tunnel near the corner of Enrico Fermi and Marconi drives that officials raided last week. The sweet spot for building drug tunnels? It's in San Diego's Otay Mesa neighborhood 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Disappointed, the team began steps to publish their results—until a reviewer suggested testing for Fermi bubbles, which would look like two circles of gamma rays above and below Andromeda’s galactic disk. The Galaxy Next Door May Be Blowing Giant Double Bubbles 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Enrico Fermi at the controls of the synchrocyclotron particle accelerator at the University of Chicago, Illinois, in the 1950s. Physics: Fallible pontiff of physics : Nature : Nature Research 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z He also edited a book, “Fermi Remembered,” inspired by a symposium in 2001 to commemorate the centennial of Mr. Fermi’s birth. James Cronin, Who Explained Why Matter Survived the Big Bang, Dies at 84 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z More than 1,500 supplemental workers were at Fermi 2 to support the work. Fermi 2 restarts after shutdown for refueling, maintenance 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z The Fermi team itself is agnostic about the source of the light. Mysterious Glow at Milky Way's Center Could Be Dark Matter or Hidden Pulsars 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z An illustration shows the Fermi bubbles extending from the Milky Way, based on gamma ray and X-ray data. The Galaxy Next Door May Be Blowing Giant Double Bubbles 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Fermi was often quicker than more formal thinkers to apply abstract ideas to improve the understanding of nature. Physics: Fallible pontiff of physics : Nature : Nature Research 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z In 1950, Enrico Fermi sketched a version of this paradox during a lunch break while he was working on the H-bomb, at Los Alamos. The Doomsday Invention 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z They kept shtum because, she explains, grand international collaborations like Fermi are conservative by their nature. Envisaging the invisible 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Part of the confusion stems from uncertainties about the gamma-ray signal, which shows up in data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. Mysterious Glow at Milky Way's Center Could Be Dark Matter or Hidden Pulsars 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z When the team reran the analysis, the Fermi bubble model smoked the competition, doing a much better job of explaining the existing data than any of their other efforts. The Galaxy Next Door May Be Blowing Giant Double Bubbles 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z However, when Fermi and his group studied the products of some of the nuclear reactions that they induced, their interpretations were sometimes wrong, as he later acknowledged. Physics: Fallible pontiff of physics : Nature : Nature Research 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Enrico Fermi and Wolfgang Pauli invented an imaginary particle to solve the problem. Why we should care about the Nobel Prize for the neutrino 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z More than 1,500 supplemental workers are at Fermi 2 to support the work. Fermi 2 plant to remain shut down for refueling, maintenance 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Physicists Bogdan Dobrescu and Don Lincoln, both of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, describe the possibilities of complex dark matter in the latest issue of Scientific American. What if Dark Matter is Stranger Than We Thought? [Video] 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z By comparison, the Milky Way’s central black hole is an underfed pip-squeak, making it surprising that it would emit any jets at all, says Fermi bubble co-discoverer Tracy Slatyer of MIT. The Galaxy Next Door May Be Blowing Giant Double Bubbles 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Fermi and his talented colleagues found that slow neutrons are remarkably effective at inducing radioactivity in some heavy chemical elements. Physics: Fallible pontiff of physics : Nature : Nature Research 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z In this case, a modern-day Fermi might find themselves making precisely the same statement that was made back in the 1950s: ‘Where is everyone?’ Does a Multiverse Fermi Paradox Disprove the Multiverse? 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Last month, design collective Kurz Gesagt released a video on the Fermi Paradox, or the explanation for why, despite the overwhelming abundance of galaxies in the universe, we will likely never encounter aliens. Why our chances of encountering alien life are so, so slim 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z In 1950, Fermi, one of the fathers of the atom bomb, turned to Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, and asked, “Where is everybody?” Our Backup Planet 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Instead, telescopes like Fermi must let the rays collide with certain other materials and then use the resulting carnage to reconstruct the photons’ flight paths. The Galaxy Next Door May Be Blowing Giant Double Bubbles 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Fermi arrived in New York City on 2 January 1939, and soon took up a post at Columbia University. Physics: Fallible pontiff of physics : Nature : Nature Research 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z American physicists want to build one at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois but cannot afford it on their own. U.S. and European Scientists Sign Cooperation Pact 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z But in late 2014, it emerged that calculations for the range of dark-matter-particle masses that would be compatible with the Fermi bump were too conservative. Mysterious galactic signal points LHC to dark matter 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Further discussion of this question yielded the so-called Fermi paradox, which runs as follows: Our Backup Planet 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Moreover, Dr. Geringer-Sameth’s team was only one of two groups that independently found the galaxy in the dark energy data and searched the Fermi results for gamma rays from it. Gamma Rays May Be Clue on Dark Matter 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The existing Fermi 2 plant is in Monroe County’s Frenchtown Township, near Monroe, and provides 1,170 megawatts. License for proposed Fermi 3 nuclear plant moves forward 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z The difference between the Fermi and the XMM–Newton observations is the energy of the light involved, which is connected to the masses of the hypothetical dark matter particles that created it. Weird X-Rays Spur Speculation about Dark Matter Detection 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Fresh estimates of the γ-ray ‘noise’ produced by known sources, provided by the Fermi science team2 and others, allow for much heavier particles. Mysterious galactic signal points LHC to dark matter 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z That idea that I mentioned at the beginning about intelligent species destroying themselves was one answer to a puzzling question called the Fermi paradox, named for the scientist Enrico Fermi. Come on, folks, this planet is worth keeping 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z The other group, led by Alex Drlica-Wagner of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois and the Dark Energy Survey as well as the Fermi telescope collaboration, did not. Gamma Rays May Be Clue on Dark Matter 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z But the string of disappointments means that some theorists are already beginning to back away from WIMPs and look at alternatives, says cosmologist Scott Dodelson of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. Crunch time for pet theory on dark matter 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Some scientists were taking their research to a competing collider at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States. Departing Leader of CERN Ponders Uncertainties That Lie Ahead 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Earlier this year, researchers used publicly available data gleaned from NASA’s Fermi gamma-ray space telescope to identify an excess of high-energy gamma rays from our galactic center. New Doubt About Dark Matter 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z As the quasar's light zips through the Fermi bubble, carbon and silicon atoms in the gas absorb certain wavelengths of ultraviolet light. Clocking the hot gas gushing from the Milky Way's core 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Data from Nasa's Fermi satellite shows that all storms produce the blasts and an estimated 1,100 occur each day. Cosmic bangs 'common on Earth' 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z EDT on April 27, just moments after Fermi and Swift detected the outburst. Forget Interstellar, Watch Milestones From NASA Swift’s 10 Years in Space And last month she was made the first artist-in-residence at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the internationally known particle accelerator in Batavia. Artist partners with physics lab, water district, cop shop 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z The NuMI Off-Axis Electron Neutrino Appearance, or NOvA, experiment, creates neutrinos by accelerating protons and slamming them into carbon nuclei inside a facility at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago. New Experiment Aims to Crack Neutrino Mass Mystery 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Astronomers recently gauged the age of the Fermi bubbles less directly, by arguing that whatever produced them also irradiated a long strand of gas shed by two nearby galaxies. Clocking the hot gas gushing from the Milky Way's core 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z In fact, the AMS results seem to conflict with the most basic explanations linking dark matter to the Fermi observations. Evidence Builds for Dark Matter Explosions at the Milky Way’s Core 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Last year, Swift, in collaboration with NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, captured the brightest gamma ray burst yet. Forget Interstellar, Watch Milestones From NASA Swift’s 10 Years in Space The project is supported with a small stipend from the Fermi Research Alliance, a partnership of Universities Research Association and the University of Chicago. Artist partners with physics lab, water district, cop shop 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z It was known as "Chicago Pile-1" and Fermi used it to create the first self-sustaining chain reaction. The element that causes arguments 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z The velocity measurement is "a great step forward," says Douglas Finkbeiner of Harvard University, one of the astronomers who discovered the Fermi bubbles. Clocking the hot gas gushing from the Milky Way's core 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z These blasts would create gamma-ray light, which is what astronomers see in abundance at the center of our galaxy in data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. Evidence Builds for Dark Matter Explosions at the Milky Way’s Core 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z President Lyndon B. Johnson later tried to erase the embarrassment of Oppenheimer's treatment by honoring him with the Atomic Energy Commission's Enrico Fermi Award in 1963. New Manhattan Project director documents released 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z They landed in the Chicago area to be near her father who was a nuclear physicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Cold Calling 100 Prospects A Day: One Entrepreneur's Story 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z He studied nuclear physics under Enrico Fermi, and through the 1940s and 1950s he built, among other things, a primitive electric toothbrush, voice activated switches, and devices for testing cooked-food. First Person Shooter: Taser's new cop-cam takes aim at perps and privacy 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z They used the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope to detect two huge lobes of gamma ray–emitting gas that extend far above and below the Milky Way's center. Clocking the hot gas gushing from the Milky Way's core 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z The experiment is intended to allow scientists a mile underground at Sanford to capture neutrinos fired through the earth from the Fermi Lab near Chicago. South Dakota lab pays off as researchers dig lower 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z This month’s Scientific American includes a first-person account of how astronomers discovered the Fermi bubbles, lobes of gamma-ray radiation that tower over the galaxy. The Giant Fermi Bubbles in the Milky Way [Video] 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Enrico Fermi, the great Italian physicist, once asked, in effect, ”Where are they?” Movie Aliens, Scary and Cute 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z The president of Brazil's national hotel association, Enrico Fermi, said sites such as Airbnb operating in this area posed no threat to the country's hotel industry. Airbnb uses FIFA World Cup to bring sharing economy to Brazil 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z According to Dmitry Malyshev, an astronomer at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, "This is pioneering work" in the study of the Fermi bubbles. Clocking the hot gas gushing from the Milky Way's core 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Graphene has so much potential because it has some very interesting electrical/optical properties including an electron mobility 10x greater than Silicon, optical transparency, a voltage-tunable Fermi level, and a high thermal conductivity. Why Does Graphene Have So Much Potential? 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z A name-the-scientist game, Fermi measurement test, Wyoming plants identifier, perplexing predictions quiz and the Science Bowl were the other critical thinking events. Texting becomes event at Gillette school Olympiad 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The tremendous difficulty of interstellar flight may help explain the famous paradox first noted by physicist Enrico Fermi in 1950: if intelligent life is common in the universe, where are all the aliens? Warp Drive Research Key to Interstellar Travel 2014-04-23T20:09:31Z "There is no demand for that kind of product in Brazil. Very rarely will a traveler or foreign tourist want to stay in someone's house, without information, when there is a hotel," Fermi said. Airbnb uses FIFA World Cup to bring sharing economy to Brazil 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Perhaps material plunged toward the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center and, swirling around it, generated strong magnetic fields that launched huge jets of gas, which produced the Fermi bubbles. Clocking the hot gas gushing from the Milky Way's core 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z The famous physicist Enrico Fermi perhaps best expressed the mood of his colleagues in an infamous remark: Quirky Quark Combo Creates Exotic New Particle 2014-04-09T20:05:00Z One way the mystery might be resolved is simply through longer and more thorough observations with the Fermi telescope. The Mystery of Dark Matter: WIMPS May Have the Answer 2014-04-08T20:33:38Z The biggest physics news this week is the announcement of possible hints of dark matter in Fermi data, namely, a curious excess of gamma-ray light coming from the center of our galaxy. Physics Week in Review: April 5, 2014 2014-04-05T09:55:01Z This represents yet another potential answer to the Fermi Paradox. The Unstoppable Extinction And Fermi’s Paradox 2014-03-20T19:34:23Z The so-called Fermi bubbles tower more than 30,000 light-years above and below the plane of the galaxy. Clocking the hot gas gushing from the Milky Way's core 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Conversely, the so-called pseudogap, a depression in the density of states around the Fermi level that may or may not be related to superconductivity, gains strength. [Report] Angular Fluctuations of a Multicomponent Order Describe the Pseudogap of YBa2Cu3O6+x 2014-03-20T18:26:13.291Z After World War II, Dr. Huizenga attended famous lectures given in Chicago by Dr. Fermi and soon began a half-century of atomic sleuthing. John R. Huizenga, Physicist at Fore of Nuclear Era, Dies at 92 2014-01-30T01:07:18Z He completed his graduate work in Chicago, working with Dr. Fermi, then spent four years teaching physics at Kalamazoo College, where he experimented with cosmic rays. Ian Barbour, Who Found a Balance Between Faith and Science, Dies at 90 2014-01-13T02:57:20Z We report on the observation of collective spin dynamics in an ultracold Fermi sea with large spin. [Report] Giant Spin Oscillations in an Ultracold Fermi Sea 2014-01-09T18:56:19.221Z It was at Los Alamos that physicists were most important, but even at Los Alamos the engineering challenges are often obscured by anecdotes about brilliant scientists like Oppenheimer, Fermi, Feynman and Bethe. Why we need to stop comparing every Big Science project to the Manhattan Project 2013-11-25T20:15:03.457Z And there may also be a 130-GeV signal in Fermi observations of Earth’s limb, which is where cosmic rays hitting the planet’s atmosphere create a gamma-ray glow. Center of Attention: Space Telescope May Hone in on Heart of the Milky Way in Hunt for Dark Matter 2013-10-01T11:45:00.790Z It was there that he met Dr. Fermi. John R. Huizenga, Physicist at Fore of Nuclear Era, Dies at 92 2014-01-30T01:07:18Z He was a conscientious objector during World War II and later a teaching assistant to Enrico Fermi, a developer of the atomic bomb. Ian Barbour, Who Found a Balance Between Faith and Science, Dies at 90 2014-01-13T02:57:20Z At ultralow temperatures, Pauli blocking stabilizes the collective behavior, and the Fermi sea behaves as a single entity in spin space. [Report] Giant Spin Oscillations in an Ultracold Fermi Sea 2014-01-09T18:56:19.221Z Fermi scans in every direction, gathering gamma rays from the whole cosmos every three hours. 'Extreme Universe' map gets update 2013-07-01T09:36:37Z But dark matter isn’t the only motivation for pointing Fermi at the galactic center. Center of Attention: Space Telescope May Hone in on Heart of the Milky Way in Hunt for Dark Matter 2013-10-01T11:45:00.790Z Now, researchers are petitioning the management team of NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, the observatory that saw the light, to change its observing strategy to determine once and for all whether the signal really exists. New Telescope Strategy Could Resolve Dark Matter Mystery 2013-06-07T15:15:04.727Z Fermi put his studies on hold for three years and emerged in 1924 with a complete understanding of nuclear fission. A time for peace 2013-05-29T17:21:03.883Z Fortunately for the scientists at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, who need just such an item, their colleagues at Brookhaven National Laboratory do have one sitting around. The Week: Kepler Telescope’s Troubles, a Maya Pyramid in Ruins and More 2013-05-20T21:18:08Z But it is a range that Fermi is uniquely placed to catch. 'Extreme Universe' map gets update 2013-07-01T09:36:37Z Spending more time looking toward the Milky Way’s heart should also allow Fermi to discover more pulsars, which are thought to be common in the inner galaxy. Center of Attention: Space Telescope May Hone in on Heart of the Milky Way in Hunt for Dark Matter 2013-10-01T11:45:00.790Z The situation is also complicated by a second, apparently unrelated, potential indication of dark matter in the Fermi data. New Telescope Strategy Could Resolve Dark Matter Mystery 2013-06-07T15:15:04.727Z The only catch is that the new experiment will take place at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, near Chicago, whose particle accelerators can produce better beams of muons. Move Over, Space Shuttle: There's a New Science Giant Cruising the U.S. This Summer 2013-05-10T22:15:00.637Z Grove hopes additional data from a sensor aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which he has worked on for years, will provide more information. Thunderstorms contain ‘dark lightning,’ invisible pulses of powerful radiation 2013-04-08T21:58:00Z Nasa's deputy project scientist on the Fermi mission, Dave Thompson, said the new catalogue release was "exciting". 'Extreme Universe' map gets update 2013-07-01T09:36:37Z Einstein’s strength was to imagine thought experiments, Fermi’s was to do rough back-of-the-envelope calculations. Do you need to know math for doing great science? 2013-04-10T01:45:02.807Z Weniger is lead author of a recent white paper suggesting the Fermi telescope spend more time looking toward the center of the Milky Way in search of this feature. New Telescope Strategy Could Resolve Dark Matter Mystery 2013-06-07T15:15:04.727Z Some of such attempts at diagramming the invisible have been made with the aid of telescopes such as the Fermi Large Array telescope. The Science and Art of the Diagrams: Culturing Physics and Mathematics, Part 1 2013-03-22T12:45:00.207Z Legendary names- Oppenheimer, Bohr, Fermi, Bethe, Rabi, Teller, Feynman to name only a few- passed through that door. The Gate: Contemplating the secret portal that led to the atomic bomb 2013-03-05T19:45:09.603Z After winning a prize in 1938 for his research on neutron-induced reactions, Fermi was the key force behind the construction of the world’s first nuclear reactor. Physics Nobel Prizes and second acts 2013-02-21T23:15:05.887Z "If we really are seeing evidence for dark matter at the centre of our galaxy, it will be the result of the Fermi mission," Dr McEnery said. Dark matter draws gamma-ray eye 2013-01-18T08:48:55Z Weniger's proposal recommends that Fermi observe the center of the galaxy whenever it is visible, which would more than double the rate at which it collects data from this part of the sky. New Telescope Strategy Could Resolve Dark Matter Mystery 2013-06-07T15:15:04.727Z You've just got to do what Oppenheimer, Fermi and Seaborg did, OK? Can the U.S. Build a Better Battery Maker? 2012-12-05T17:15:00.220Z The American physicist Robert Wilson was asked to testify before Congress in support of the construction of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, known as Fermilab. The perils of translational research 2012-11-26T18:45:13.717Z Another outstanding example is Enrico Fermi, perhaps the most versatile physicist of the twentieth century, equally accomplished in both theory and experiment. Physics Nobel Prizes and second acts 2013-02-21T23:15:05.887Z The Fermi team is now opening a call for ideas on changing how it observes. Dark matter draws gamma-ray eye 2013-01-18T08:48:55Z Fermi is funded to continue operating through at least 2016, potentially offering plenty of time to settle the question of the galactic center light. New Telescope Strategy Could Resolve Dark Matter Mystery 2013-06-07T15:15:04.727Z When Fermi–LAT physicists looked at data from the Earth limb, or outer rim of the atmosphere, they found another linelike bump in the data at 135 GeV. Strange Signal at Galactic Center-Is It Dark Matter? 2012-11-19T01:15:05.387Z More high-energy photons will be extracted from Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope observations. Space telescope to get software fix 2012-11-07T18:20:42.840Z Illinois's 14th district contains DOE's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, where Foster worked for 22 years before leaving in 2006. Physicist Bill Foster Returns to U.S. House of Representatives 2012-11-07T05:33:50Z But outside the Fermi team, the focus shifted in early 2012, when a of on the Arxiv preprint server suggested hints of dark matter within Fermi's data, which are publicly available. Dark matter draws gamma-ray eye 2013-01-18T08:48:55Z The announcement by the Fermi National Accelerator Lab outside Chicago came two days before physicists at CERN, the European particle accelerator near Geneva, are set to unveil their own findings in the Higgs hunt. Best evidence yet found for "God particle:" U.S. physicists 2012-07-03T04:53:24Z You studied with other scientific giants, like Enrico Fermi. A Conversation With Mildred Dresselhaus: Carbon Catalyst for Half a Century 2012-07-02T21:44:49Z A workaround for the memory deficiency was uploaded to the spacecraft two weeks ago, and new software is being tested, the team reported last week at the Fourth International Fermi Symposium in Monterey, California. Space telescope to get software fix 2012-11-07T18:20:42.840Z Feynman, Einstein, Fermi, Bohr, and Faraday What activities outside of physics do you most enjoy? 30 under 30: Playing Billiard Balls With Neutrons and Protons to Understand Exotic Nuclei 2012-06-25T12:45:05.203Z The jets appear as faint lines in maps of the galaxy made by NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. Vestiges of Violence: Towering Gamma-Ray Jets Point to Past Outbursts from Milky Way's Black Hole 2012-06-01T11:15:00.407Z With orbiting observatories such as NASA's Fermi and Swift spacecraft routinely spotting the bursts, astronomers are laying plans to use them as cosmic flashbulbs to scrutinize the obscure details of the Universe's early years. Messages from the early Universe 2012-05-16T17:50:22.410Z That is certainly the case with physicist Christoph Weniger’s paper, “A Tentative Gamma-Ray Line from Dark Matter Annihilation at the Fermi Large Area Telescope,” posted on April 12, on dark matter. Closing in on Dark Matter: Another "Tentative" Step 2012-04-23T19:15:00.250Z But four years after launch, Fermi researchers are only now replacing the main algorithm used to analyse the γ-ray data. Space telescope to get software fix 2012-11-07T18:20:42.840Z A team of physicists encoded a short string of letters on a beam of neutrinos at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., and sent the message to a detector more than a kilometer away. Message Encoded in Neutrino Beam Transmitted through Solid Rock 2012-03-16T13:45:00.210Z In 2010 the researchers, again using the Fermi telescope, identified huge bubbles above and below the plane of the Milky Way, glowing with gamma rays. Vestiges of Violence: Towering Gamma-Ray Jets Point to Past Outbursts from Milky Way's Black Hole 2012-06-01T11:15:00.407Z The main ring of the Tevatron accelerator at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Higgs Boson May Be Indicated in New Data 2012-03-07T09:27:13Z Another development to watch for is a response from the folks on the Fermi collaboration. Closing in on Dark Matter: Another "Tentative" Step 2012-04-23T19:15:00.250Z The peculiar thing about this discovery is that Fermi isn’t even an antimatter detector. Magnetoastrocoolness: How Cosmic Magnetic Fields Shape Planetary Systems 2012-01-13T16:15:05.427Z However, in that analysis, the Fermi group considered the sum total of all charged particles, electrons, and positrons. Cosmic Antimatter Excess Confirmed 2011-11-22T21:13:00Z Maybe they, the home of Marconi, Maserati and Fermi, will pull it off. The Relentless Pursuit of Magical Energy 2011-10-28T04:27:45Z Plans are underway at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, to fire a beam of neutrinos to a detector 735 kilometers away in the Soudan mine in Minnesota. Scientists to Retest Faster-than-Light Neutrinos 2011-10-04T16:10:27Z It’s another day at the Tevatron, a particle accelerator embedded in the verdant grounds of the 6,800-acre Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory complex in Batavia, about 50 miles due west of Chicago. Waiting for the Higgs (preview) 2011-09-29T12:15:00.497Z Last fall Fermi confirmed earlier findings that positrons are peppering our planet; these cosmic particles, the antimatter twin of electrons, might originate in the self-destruction of dark-matter particles. Magnetoastrocoolness: How Cosmic Magnetic Fields Shape Planetary Systems 2012-01-13T16:15:05.427Z Now, new data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope confirm the spike. Cosmic Antimatter Excess Confirmed 2011-11-22T21:13:00Z These measurements indicated how the Fermi energy of the nanocrystals changed upon doping, a key feature in controlling the electronic properties of electronic devices. Conducting Energy on a Nano Scale 2011-07-19T14:45:00Z Computing specialists there are already working towards permanent archiving of the data, says Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy of Fermilab, who works on computing systems for the CMS, one of the LHC experiments. Tevatron's legacy set to disappear 2011-06-01T17:20:24.333Z This December 2, 1942 photo depicts Dr. Enrico Fermi, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist known in part for leading of the group of scientists who initiated the first man-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. Fermi At The Board 2011-05-19T21:48:31Z "Dark matter is an excellent example of the kind of new physics that Fermi is sensitive to," said Steven Ritz, deputy principal investigator for Fermi-Lat. Best-yet view of extreme Universe 2011-05-13T10:58:38Z Fermi project scientist Julie McEnery said that the find was a testament to the power of the Fermi telescope to elucidate new physics in the cosmos. Crab Nebula unleashes huge flare 2011-05-11T14:20:05Z Also on the list are Enrico Fermi Unit 1, near Detroit, in 1966; Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg, Pa., in 1979; and Chernobyl, in Ukraine, 25 years ago this month. Physicist Reviews Nuclear Meltdowns 2011-04-12T01:15:33Z The Tevatron, at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is the second most powerful particle collider in the world after the Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva, Switzerland. U.S. Collider Offers Physicists a Glimpse of a Possible New Particle 2011-04-07T16:15:00.320Z This December 2, 1942 photo depicts Dr. Enrico Fermi, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist known in part for leading of the group of scientists who initiated the first man-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. Fermi At The Board 2011-05-19T21:48:31Z The Fermi collaboration will soon release a full catalogue of all the gamma ray sources discovered so far. Best-yet view of extreme Universe 2011-05-13T10:58:38Z It honours Enrico Fermi, the great Italian-American physicist who worked on the development of the first nuclear reactor and who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938 for his work on radioactivity. Crab Nebula unleashes huge flare 2011-05-11T14:20:05Z Fermi wrote these words two years before he died at age 53 of stomach cancer caused by radiation exposure to his reactor. Nuclear Power Runs Amok: Laurence Kotlikoff and Eugene Stanley 2011-03-21T23:03:15Z The United Auto Workers opposed construction of the Fermi 1 plant outside Detroit as early as 1957. Japan Crisis Could Rekindle U.S. Antinuclear Movement 2011-03-19T03:01:20Z She did not knock at the door, which stood open, but, somewhat to Fermi's amazement, walked at once into the front room, which was plainly the room of state. Louisiana 2011-02-18T03:00:21.217Z As announced in January, the department also plans to close the Tevatron, a particle accelerator at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, saving $35 million. Energy Department to seek $600 million in budget cuts 2011-02-12T01:05:01Z "That's why people hadn't found this before; there was not an instrument like Fermi sensitive enough to capture it." Crab Nebula unleashes huge flare 2011-05-11T14:20:05Z At the same time, the collider’s rival, the Tevatron at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, will shut down for good this fall. Hadron Collider to Keep Running 2011-02-01T06:07:09Z The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s Tevatron will shut down by the end of September, the U.S. Tevatron to Shut Down in September 2011-01-20T16:02:00Z Bison graze nearby on the 6,800 acres of former farmland occupied by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill. Occasionally, physicists run races around the top of it. Essay: Recalling a Fallen Star?s Legacy in High-Energy Particle Physics 2011-01-17T22:05:44Z The strength of the weak force is encapsulated in a number called the Fermi constant, named for the Italian-American scientist Enrico Fermi. Weak Nuclear Force Is Less Weak 2011-01-13T18:23:00Z As they move in curved paths, the particles emit the gamma rays seen by Fermi. Crab Nebula unleashes huge flare 2011-05-11T14:20:05Z "One of the great things about the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor is that it detects flashes of gamma rays all across the cosmic scale," explained Julie McEnery, Fermi project scientist at Nasa. Antimatter 'streams from storms' 2011-01-11T08:34:33Z If indeed we are not alone, then, as Fermi asked, “where are the aliens?” Letters: Dark Beings (1 Letter) 2011-01-10T23:11:03Z The results were consistent with expectations that a resonant Fermi gas would have properties dependent only on density and temperature. This Week in Science 2011-01-06T19:25:00.633Z Scientists at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory recently verified a 16-year-old experiment that sought the first evidence of these particles. New Subatomic Particle Could Help Explain the Mystery of Dark Matter 2011-01-06T14:15:04.347Z Some astrophysicists are hopeful that the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope will deliver corroborating, if still somewhat indirect, evidence for the mutual annihilation of dark matter particles in the galaxy. Reliance on Indirect Evidence Fuels Dark Matter Doubts 2011-01-04T16:16:43.287Z So was Enrico Fermi, the pioneer of nuclear fission. Wordplay: Numberplay: Figuring It Out in Your Head 2010-12-20T20:49:39Z This was a question posed by the physicist Enrico Fermi as far back as 1950, saying "where is everybody?" to his colleagues over lunch. Where is everyone? 2010-12-14T10:43:09Z At Princeton, he projects photos of scientists - such as Enrico Fermi and J. Robert Oppenheimer - who were among the fathers of the atom bomb during World War II. Energy Secretary Chu in sprint to put stimulus to work on renewable innovations 2010-11-14T04:49:00Z Once helium is used for projects at the Fermi lab, for example, researchers capture the escaped gas in pressurized tanks. Nation's helium reserve running on empty? 2010-10-11T21:00:00Z Uranium atoms were first split in America in 1939 in a Columbia University cyclotron by the émigré physicists Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard and their teams. Answers About World War II in New York 2010-09-29T16:11:00Z Craig Hogan of the University of Chicago and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., acknowledges that “it’s a competent team and a thorough analysis.” Changing One of Nature's Constants 2010-09-07T13:33:00Z It formed the basis of the Fermi paradox which juxtaposes the high estimates of intelligent life and the lack of evidence put forward. Where is everyone? 2010-12-14T10:43:09Z He said Nvidia is trying to transition to a more expensive Fermi chip amid macroeconomic weakness that is also hurting PC production forecasts. Nvidia's share tumble drags other chipmakers lower 2010-07-29T16:49:00Z It prevents the particle accelerators at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois and the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, from overheating. Nation's helium reserve running on empty? 2010-10-11T21:00:00Z At the secret laboratory at Los Alamos, N.M., where she worked with Enrico Fermi, she was assigned to a team that built two reactors for testing enriched uranium and plutonium. Joan Hinton, Physicist Who Chose China Over Atom Bomb, Is Dead at 88 2010-06-12T02:40:00Z There has been plenty of time for at least one of those expansionary civilizations to reach our galactic neighborhood—a prospect that once led the physicist Enrico Fermi to famously utter "Where is everybody?" Is Anybody Out There? 2010-04-10T03:18:00Z Indeed, the simplest answer to Fermi's Paradox is that there is no intelligent life to search for so none has been found. Where is everyone? 2010-12-14T10:43:09Z Yes, you know what I am talking about, the Fermi radiations! For Every Man A Reason You deserve to go down in history along with Newton, Watt, Roentgen, Edison, Einstein, Fermi, and all the rest. By Proxy He there saw the organ by Fermis which induced him to take up that mechanism and develop it to its present perfection. The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments Nuclear reactors had become simpler and easier to service since the First Day of the Year Zero, when Enrico Fermi put the first one into operation, but the principles remained the same. The Cosmic Computer Near Fermi, they fell in with the enemy, about three thousand. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 Nuclear physics: a course given by Enrico Fermi. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1977 July - December But at that point the Marchesa Fermi, having discovered a small bell on the mantel-shelf, began ringing it, to obtain silence. The Saint |
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