SLAC: Petawatt Laser Facility Addition
In late 2021, a proposal for a 10Hz petawatt laser addition to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) was approved for construction by the Department of Energy…
Articles by Dheeran Wiggins
Measuring Resonances: JILA Optical Lattice Clock
Physicists from JILA, a research institute cofounded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder, have reported developments in the use of ultracold…
Quantum Startup Launches 256-qubit Computer
With numerous competitors across the technology industry, massive corporations such as Google and IBM have been at the forefront of developing larger and more complex systems of entangled qubits for…
Remembering Virgil Abloh: Design Icon, Dead at 41
On November 28, 2021, Virgil Abloh, the artistic director of Louis Vuitton menswear collections and founder of Italian luxury fashion label “Off-White,” died after a struggle with cardiac angiosarcoma. Abloh…
Fermilab MicroBoone: No Sign of Sterile Neutrinos
New results from the United States Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), or Fermilab for short, show no signs of a fourth flavor sterile neutrino. This hypothetical particle…
Virginia Shifts to Red: Understanding the November Gubernatorial Election
On Wednesday, November 3 at 12:30 AM, the Associated Press officially announced Republican Glenn Youngkin as the 74th Governor-elect of Virginia. Ahead by a margin of 2.5% (50.9% to 48.4%),…