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Four physicists discuss Higgs boson research since the discovery.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

What to Do with the Data?

Physicists and scientific computing experts prepare for an onslaught of petabytes.

Scientists used SLAC's LCLS X-ray laser to make the first snapshots of a chemical interaction between two biomolecules. It changes the shape of millions of molecular switches almost instantaneously, like synchronized swimmers performing the same move.

Illustration depicting a chemical interaction as synchronized swimmers.

The team determined the 3-D structure of a biomolecule by tagging it with selenium atoms and taking hundreds of thousands of images.

News Feature · VIA Stanford News

Persis Drell Named Stanford Provost

An accomplished academic leader and longtime member of the Stanford community, Drell will become the university’s chief academic officer and chief budgetary officer. She will assume the role Feb. 1.

Headshot of Persis Drell

Two recently funded computing projects work toward developing cutting-edge scientific applications for future exascale supercomputers that can perform at least a billion billion computing operations per second.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

In Search of a Parallel Universe

What are parallel universes, and why do we think they might exist?

During a recent shutdown, engineers installed new beamline technology and a 3-D virtual tour captured rare views of the synchrotron’s interior.

New in-vacuum undulator
News Feature · VIA SLAC Flickr

Graphic: X-ray Lasers Just Became More Colorful

For the first time, scientists at SLAC’s X-ray laser have created bright, three-colored X-ray pulses.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

It Came From the Physics Lab

Settle in for a physics-themed Halloween movie marathon.

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