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News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

2016 year in particle physics

Scientists furthered studies of the Higgs boson, neutrinos, dark matter, dark energy and cosmic inflation and continued the search for undiscovere

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Science with Sprinkles

Holiday guests will gravitate toward these physics cookies.

SLAC launched America’s first website on Dec. 12, 1991.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

A Syllabus in Cosmic Rays

What have scientists learned in five years of studying cosmic rays with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment?

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Deep Learning Takes on Physics

Can the same type of technology Facebook uses to recognize faces also recognize particles?

After 30 years in industry, he is leading a new focus at the lab’s SSRL X-ray light source and looking for ways to build on research strengths at SLAC and Stanford.

Simon Bare at SLAC’s Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource

Squeezing a platinum catalyst a fraction of a nanometer nearly doubles its catalytic activity, a finding that could lead to better fuel cells and other clean energy technologies.

Paleontologist Phil Manning describes the “Imaging Life on Earth” project at TEDxCharleston.

New X-ray methods have captured the highest resolution room-temperature images of photosystem II.

SLAC experiments demonstrate a new way to access valence electrons, which are important in forming chemical bonds and determine many of a material’s properties.

Yong Sing You and Shambhu Ghimire in the PULSE laser laboratory

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