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News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Scientists Set Aside Rivalry to Preserve Knowledge

Scientists from two experiments have banded together to create a single comprehensive record of their work for scientific posterity.

Man at podium with a big book

SLAC Experiment Provides New Insight About How Electrons Move Across Molecules

Researchers used SLAC's LCLS X-ray laser to stimulate and measure the electron-transfer process inside a severed methyl iodide molecule.

Sulfur Cathode Experiments Test Chemistry Beyond Conventional Lithium-Ion

Photo - scientist preparing a dime-sized prototype battery

Linear Accelerator Generates First Positron Beams Since 2008

Photo – FACET instruments, including plasma oven for plasma wakefield experiments.
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

The Machine Learning Community Takes on the Higgs

Detecting new physics isn’t quite like detecting cat videos—yet.

News Feature · VIA Stanford Magazine

Charging Ahead

SLAC and Stanford's Yi Cui leads the quest to build more energetic batteries. For SSRL's involvement, read the sidebar "Batteries: An Inside Story."

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

US Reveals Its Next Generation of Dark Matter Experiments

Together, three experiments, two with major SLAC contributions, will search for a variety of types of dark matter particles.

This composite image shows the galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56, also known as the "bullet cluster."

SLAC, Stanford Advance Will Benefit Thousands of Computational Studies in Wide Range of Fields

Using high-brilliance X-rays, researchers track the process that fuel cells use to produce electricity, knowledge that will help make large-scale

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

What’s Next for Higgs Boson Research?

Two years after the groundbreaking discovery of the Higgs boson, physicists are still hard at work.

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