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Scientists create artificial catalysts inspired by living enzymes

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X-ray research on 80-million-year-old fossilized burrows, likely the work of tiny marine worms, is helping scientists understand how living organisms affected the chemistry of...

Image - This marine worm, commonly known as a ragworm, can grow up to 4 inches in length. It is part of a class of worms known as polychaetes. A far smaller variety of polychaetes was likely responsible for creating ancient burrows studied at SLAC.
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It’s in the air we breathe, but it’s not so easy to get ahold of 10 metric tons of xenon in its liquid form...

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The former Stanford graduate student, who did extensive research at SLAC, is being honored as an exceptional role model for women in science.

Ming Yi
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A tiny change in the length of a chemical bond makes a big difference in the activity of a molecule important in health, drug...

Image - Courtney Krest Roach (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
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Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald received the call from Sweden for their work on the Super-Kamiokande and SNO experiments.

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SIMES research, which confounds two decades of assumptions on lithium-ion battery design, could lead to better batteries with more power and greater capacity.

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A new breed of experiments seeks sources of cosmic rays and other astrophysics phenomena.

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VIA Symmetry Magazine

New Discovery? Or Just Another Bump?

For physicists, seeing is not always believing.

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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Citizen Scientists Published

Amateurs and professionals share the credit in the newest publications from the Space Warps project.

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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Do Protons Decay?

Is it possible that these fundamental building blocks of atoms have a finite lifetime?

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The DOE has approved the project’s scientific scope, schedule and funding. SLAC researchers are among the 200 physicists and astronomers who make up the...

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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Hitting the Neutrino Floor

Dark matter experiments are becoming so sensitive, even the ghostliest of particles will soon get in the way.