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The Mystery of Particle Generations

Why are there three almost identical copies of each particle of matter?

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IceCube Sees Highest-Energy Neutrino Ever Found

Observations of this kind could lead scientists to the source of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.

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One Higgs is the Loneliest Number

Physicists discovered one type of Higgs boson in 2012. Now they’re looking for more.

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Is this the only universe?

Our universe could be just one small piece of a bubbling multiverse.

A researcher interviewed SLAC and Stanford administrators, scientists and Nobel laureates and sifted through archival materials to better understand the drivers for change in SLAC’s science mission.

Image - Olof Hallonsten

A biomedical breakthrough reveals never-before-seen details of the human body’s cellular switchboard that regulates sensory and hormonal responses.

 Illustration shows arrestin (yellow), an important type of signaling protein, while docked with rhodopsin (orange).
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The Standard Model of Particle Physics

Explore the elementary particles that make up our universe.

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Something Goes Bump in the Data

The  ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC see something mysterious, but it’s too soon to pop the Champagne.

In separate studies, researchers at Stanford and the University of Wisconsin-Madison report advances on chemical reactions essential to fuel-cell technology.

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Miraculous WIMPs

What are WIMPs, and what makes them such popular dark matter candidates? 

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