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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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Using a newly identified set of supernovae, researchers have found a way to measure distances in space twice as precisely as before.
Indirect detection experiments might be the key to discovering invisible dark matter.
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will take the most thorough survey ever of the Southern sky.
Antimatter has fueled many a supernatural tale. It's also fascinating all by itself.
Either Supersymmetry will be found in the next years of research at the Large Hadron Collider, or it isn’t exactly what theorists hoped it...
A 20-ton superconducting magnet has completed its journey from California to New York.
A new agreement paves the way for joint projects between the United States and CERN.
The Large Hadron Collider broke its own record again in 13-trillion-electronvolt test collisions.
The underground home of the LUX dark matter experiment has a rich scientific history.
Data collection has officially begun at the Large Hadron Collider.
How do accelerators survive in some of the most earthquake-prone regions on Earth?
The OPERA experiment’s study of tau neutrino appearance has reached the level of “discovery.”