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Scientists create artificial catalysts inspired by living enzymes

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Scientists are using plasma to create electronic sensors that will track the health of astronauts.

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Now the startup, Lumeras LLC, has a viable commercial product, and scientists have a new tool for studying the behavior of complex materials.

Lumeras founder Andrew Merriam, left, and SLAC/Stanford Professor Zhi-Xun Shen with a tabletop laser the company developed
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What’s the difference between a synchrotron and a cyclotron, anyway?

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Four Stanford students receive funding for work on novel accelerators and beams for SLAC's X-ray laser.

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Science-interested teens spent a week at the lab learning more about STEM at the inaugural Greene Scholars Program Summer Science Institute at SLAC.

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Yi Cui and colleagues have developed new ways to improve hydrogen production and rechargeable zinc batteries.

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VIA Symmetry Magazine

The Neutrino Turns 60

Project Poltergeist led to the discovery of the ghostly particle.

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The results are an important step in designing these solid-state devices for computer memories that would operate much faster, last longer and use less...

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A SLAC/Stanford study opens a new path to producing laser pulses that are just billionths of a billionth of a second long by inducing...

Stanford graduate student Georges Ndabashimiye in the PULSE Institute laser lab
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

What Is a “Particle”?

Quantum physics says everything is made of particles, but what does that actually mean?

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VIA Symmetry Magazine

1,000 Meters Below

Meet the world’s deepest underground physics facilities.

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Finding ways to handle torrents of data from LSST and LCLS-II will also advance “exascale” computing.