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Studying the particles and forces that knit the cosmos together
Building smaller, faster, more powerful accelerators for all
Understanding the machinery of life at its most basic level
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Finding clean, sustainable solutions for the world’s energy challenges
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Linac Coherent Light Source
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests
Cryogenic Electron Microscopy
Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Science
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology
Stanford PULSE Institute
Center for Interface Science & Catalysis
SLAC & Stanford build the world’s largest digital camera for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
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This joint publication of SLAC and Fermilab is your view into the world of particle physics.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
The Macromolecular Structure Knowledge Center can help researchers who lack equipment for testing hundreds of different crystallization conditions or expertise in working with challenging molecules.
Scientists want to connect the fundamental forces of nature in one Grand Unified Theory.
The upgraded experiment aims to discover if neutrinos are their own antiparticles.
Astronomers around the world are looking for visible sources of gravitational waves.
Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider are once again recording collisions at extraordinary energies.
The Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles, but most of our mass comes from somewhere else.
Meet the world’s deepest underground physics facilities.
Quantum physics says everything is made of particles, but what does that actually mean?
Project Poltergeist led to the discovery of the ghostly particle.
Yi Cui and colleagues have developed new ways to improve hydrogen production and rechargeable zinc batteries.
Before Hitomi died, it sent back X-ray data that explain how turbulent motions may prevent cooling of hot gas.
What’s the difference between a synchrotron and a cyclotron, anyway?