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A recent discovery by scientists from the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis could lead to a new, more sustainable way to make ethanol without corn or other crops.

Propagating “charge density wave” fluctuations are seen in superconducting copper oxides for the first time.

Illustration of electronic behavior in copper oxide materials
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Another Year Wiser

In honor of Fermilab’s upcoming 50th birthday, Symmetry presents physics birthday cards.

Data from the BABAR, Belle and LHCb experiments hint at phenomena beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.

Vera-Luth

A decade-long search ends at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, where researchers from The Scripps Research Institute emerge with a clear picture of how the deadly Lassa virus enters human cells.

illustration of Lassa virus protein molecular structure

When scientists at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory focused the full intensity of the world’s most powerful X-ray l

molecular black hole
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

A Brief Etymology of Particle Physics

How did the proton, photon and other particles get their names?

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

First Results from Search for a Dark Light

The Heavy Photon Search at Jefferson Lab is looking for a hypothetical particle from a hidden “dark sector.”

Heavy Photon Search.
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

LHC Swings Back into Action

Protons are colliding once again in the Large Hadron Collider.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

The Facts and Nothing but the Facts

At a recent workshop on blind analysis, researchers discussed how to keep their expectations out of their results.

Blind Analysis

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