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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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Settle in for a physics-themed Halloween movie marathon.
For the first time, scientists at SLAC’s X-ray laser have created bright, three-colored X-ray pulses.
What are parallel universes, and why do we think they might exist?
An accomplished academic leader and longtime member of the Stanford community, Drell will become the university’s chief academic officer and chief budgetary officer. She...
Physicists and scientific computing experts prepare for an onslaught of petabytes.
Four physicists discuss Higgs boson research since the discovery.
The late artist June Schwarcz found inspiration in some unusual wrapping paper her husband brought home from the lab.
A team including SIMES principal investigator Shoucheng Zhang says it has found the first firm evidence of such a Majorana fermion.
Prototype tests of the future SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment are in full swing.
At a recent meeting, scientists shared ideas for searching for dark matter on the (relative) cheap.
The minuscule and the immense can reveal quite a bit about each other.
Instead of searching for dark matter particles, a new device will search for dark matter waves.
