23 June

Fermilab expects to lose up to 100 employees over the next several months as workers are given an opportunity to take buyouts as part of an effort to avert layoffs.

“When we set ourselves the objective of achieving one inverse femtobarn in 2011, it was for good reason: that amount of data could well give us access to exciting new physics.”

The multinational T2K project in Japan says it has seen indications in its data that these elementary particles can flip to any of their three types.

For the first time, it was possible to observe an indication that muon neutrinos are able to transform into electron neutrinos over a distance of 295 km through the quantum mechanical phenomena of neutrino flavor oscillations.