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Taken at SLAC, microscopic footage of exploding liquids will give researchers more control over experiments at X-ray lasers.

KIPAC researchers mourn the loss of the Hitomi spacecraft but are thrilled about the data it was still able to capture.

The Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles, but most of our mass comes from somewhere else.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

LHC Prepares to Deliver Six Times the Data

Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider are once again recording collisions at extraordinary energies.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Following LIGO’s Treasure Maps

Astronomers around the world are looking for visible sources of gravitational waves.

High-speed X-ray camera reveals ultrafast atomic motions at the root of organisms’ ability to turn light into biological function.

a protein from photosynthetic bacteria

The lab’s signature particle highway prepares to enter another era of transformative science as the home of the LCLS-II X-ray laser.

SLAC linear accelerator building at sunset

The upgraded experiment aims to discover if neutrinos are their own antiparticles.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

A GUT Feeling about Physics

Scientists want to connect the fundamental forces of nature in one Grand Unified Theory.

New ‘GREEN-RF’ Technology Recycles Energy that Would Otherwise Go to Waste in Accelerating Particles for Science, Medicine, Industry

Looking down the SLAC Klystron Gallery.

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