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Revealing nature’s fastest processes with X-rays, lasers and electrons
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
Inventing new tools for science and society
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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SLAC scientist Michael Kelsey sees connections between the communities of physicists and do-it-yourselfers.
Two years after the groundbreaking discovery of the Higgs boson, physicists are still hard at work.
Using high-brilliance X-rays, researchers track the process that fuel cells use to produce electricity, knowledge that will help make large-scale
Together, three experiments, two with major SLAC contributions, will search for a variety of types of dark matter particles.
Sulfur Cathode Experiments Test Chemistry Beyond Conventional Lithium-Ion
Detecting new physics isn’t quite like detecting cat videos—yet.
Scientists from two experiments have banded together to create a single comprehensive record of their work for scientific posterity.
A determined volunteer gives an old detector new life as the centerpiece of a cosmic ray exhibit.
Step on a scale and you’ll get a quick measure of your weight. Weighing galaxy clusters, groups of hundreds or thousands of galaxies bound...
Researchers have taken a big step toward accomplishing what battery designers have been trying to do for decades – design a pure lithium anode.
Photon science, a spin-off of particle physics, has returned to its roots for help developing better, faster detectors.
The Higgs boson could be the tool that leads scientists to the next big discovery.