Fermilab Completes Its Part in Upgrading World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser

BYLINE: Madeleine O’Keefe Newswise — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has completed building and delivering the final component it is providing to the high-energy upgrade of…

DUNE Collaborators Advance Breakthrough Power-Over-Fiber Technology

BYLINE: Zachary Burton Newswise — Inside an unassuming building on the campus of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, a small research team is tackling…

Fermilab Marks Major Milestone for World-Leading DUNE Experiment

BYLINE: Tracy Marc Newswise — Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the Sanford Underground Research Facility held an event today in Lead, S.D., celebrating a significant milestone for the most ambitious neutrino research…

Genetic Pathways Link Cannabis Use to Psychosis Risk

Summary: New research provides a breakthrough in understanding the biological mechanisms linking Cannabis Use Disorder (CUD) and psychosis. By conducting a large-scale genetic meta-analysis, researchers identified over 500 genetic loci…

Hantavirus questions grow in the wake of a cruise ship outbreak

As public health officials around the world monitor dozens of former passengers and crewmembers of the MV Hondius for signs of hantavirus infection, scientists are hoping to learn more about…

The Whirlpool Galaxy comes alive photo of the day for May 13, 2026

The Whirlpool Galaxy sprawls across the cosmos in this striking new snapshot from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The galaxy, formally known as M51 (Messier 51), stretches out its…

Opposites Annihilate: Presenting Antimatter Research

Newswise — NEWPORT NEWS, VA – A high school field trip to a particle accelerator set Tyler Hague’s future in motion. Nearly two decades later, he is bringing his antimatter…

Immigrant patients often choose doctors with a shared cultural background – what they are seeking isn’t sameness but connection

At a recent dental appointment, I was unexpectedly seen by a new provider in my longtime dentist’s practice. Early in the visit, he realized we were both Iranian American. Like…

Galaxy Cluster Relaxed Now, but Was Wild in the Past

BYLINE: Megan Watzke Newswise — The galaxy cluster Abell 2029 is sometimes described as “the most relaxed cluster in the Universe.” This moniker does not arise from some sort of…

Using Nuclear Shapes to Study How Particles Flow in Collisions Between Light Ions

The Science    Newswise — Physicists are searching for signs that even the smallest high-energy nuclear collisions can create a hot, dense state of matter known as the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). These small…