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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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Steven Kivelson, a member of SLAC’s Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, has been named a winner of the 2012 John Bardeen Prize...
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A possible sign of dark matter will eventually become clear, according to promising signs from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment.
SSRL protein crystallography expert joined research effort that could lead to a safe and effective alternative to chemotherapy.
Particle physicists and scientists from other disciplines are finding ways to help one another answer critical questions.
As charged-particle therapies grow in popularity, physicists are working with other experts to make them smaller, cheaper and more effective—and m
Astrophysicists inspire space-related projects at a 24-hour hack-a-thon in San Francisco.
SLAC scientists are among the researchers to receive funding to advance solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy.
Cosmic inflation refers to a period of rapid, accelerated expansion that scientists think took place about 14 billion years ago.