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Chris Pollock Adapted Technique to Study Biomolecules in More Detail

Image - Chris Pollock monitors an experiment at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource. (Courtesy of Chris Pollock)

SLAC Experiment Reveals Mysterious Order in Liquid Helium

Physicists have good reason to believe 85 percent of the matter in the universe is currently undetectable. But not being able to see it didn’t keep students at the 42nd SLAC Summer Institute from learning about it.

Photo - SSI speaker Tracy Slatyer of MIT

SIMES Researcher Developed Innovative Printing Process

Image - Ying Diao
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Dark Energy Survey Kicks Off Second Season

In September, DES will make data collected in its first season freely available to researchers.

X-ray Studies will Explore Hybrid Materials for Solar Energy, Efficient Lighting and Other Uses

Image - A researcher at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource holds up a thin strip of material printed with an ink (magenta) relevant to solar-energy conversion.
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Open Access to the Universe

A team of scientists generated a giant cosmic simulation—and now they're giving it away.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Science on Demand

Brian Greene welcomes the Internet to physics class with World Science U.

Laser-timing Tool Works at the Speed of Electrons

Image - An illustration of the setup used to test an "attosecond" timing tool at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser. The dashed line represents the arrival time of the X-ray laser.

Last year, a monster magnet set out from Brookhaven National Lab on an epic trek by land and sea to Fermilab, where it will serve as the heart of a search for evidence of new subatomic particles. Last month, researchers...

Photo – The Muon g-2 Detector Group

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