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Mathematician to Know: Emmy Noether

Noether's theorem is a thread woven into the fabric of the science.

Researchers discovered that adding two chemicals to the electrolyte of a lithium metal battery prevents the formation of dendrites – “fingers” of lithium that pierce the barrier between the battery’s halves, causing it to short out, overheat and sometimes burst...

Image - concept of dendrites v pancakes
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Making the Portable Gamma Camera

The end of the Cold War and the cancellation of the Superconducting Super Collider led to the creation of a life-saving medical device.

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OPERA Catches Fifth Tau Neutrino

The OPERA experiment’s study of tau neutrino appearance has reached the level of “discovery.”

The fellowship will support their research on new capabilities for the lab's X-ray free-electron lasers and new telescope technology to look for signs of cosmic inflation.

Zeeshan Ahmed and Agostino Marinelli, SLAC's 2015 Panofsky Fellows
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Symmetry Q&A: New director-general of KEK

Masanori Yamauchi started his three-year term as head of Japan’s major center of particle physics research this spring.

X-ray studies at SLAC have observed an exotic property that could improve performance in ever-smaller computer components.

3-D negative electronic compressibility, observed for the first time in research conducted, in part,

SLAC visiting scientist and consulting professor Claudio Pellegrini is honored for contributions to free-electron laser science.

Image - Claudio Pellegrini stands in the Linac Coherent Light Source Beam Transport Hall. The accelerated electron beam passes through here to the Undulator Hall, where electron bunches generate X-rays. (Michelle McCarron)
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Steady to a Fault

How do accelerators survive in some of the most earthquake-prone regions on Earth?

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LHC Arrives at the Next Energy Frontier

Data collection has officially begun at the Large Hadron Collider.

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