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Scientists create artificial catalysts inspired by living enzymes

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Linear Accelerator Generates First Positron Beams Since 2008

Photo – FACET instruments, including plasma oven for plasma wakefield experiments.
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Detecting new physics isn’t quite like detecting cat videos—yet.

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Together, three experiments, two with major SLAC contributions, will search for a variety of types of dark matter particles.

This composite image shows the galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56, also known as the "bullet cluster."
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SLAC, Stanford Advance Will Benefit Thousands of Computational Studies in Wide Range of Fields

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Using high-brilliance X-rays, researchers track the process that fuel cells use to produce electricity, knowledge that will help make large-scale

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Two years after the groundbreaking discovery of the Higgs boson, physicists are still hard at work.

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SLAC scientist Michael Kelsey sees connections between the communities of physicists and do-it-yourselfers.

Michael Kelsey
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Grad Students and Postdocs Get a Crash Course in Using X-ray Lasers

Archana Raja, a graduate student at Columbia University, explains her group’s poster presentation at SLAC’s Ultrafast X-ray Summer Seminar.
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Two dark matter hunters with decades of experience between them are turning SLAC into their base of operations for LZ, the next big dark...

Photo - Dark matter hunters Thomas Shutt (l) and Daniel Akerib.
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Stanford researcher Thomas F. Jaramillo has been named SUNCAT’s new deputy director for experiments. He succeeds SLAC’s Anders Nilsson.

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Getting the Jump on Big Data for LSST

Efforts are already underway to ensure that the data the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope  collects will be ready to be mined for scientific gold.

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Exploding Soccer Ball-shaped Molecules Will Help Biological Studies

Image - Buckyballs, molecules composed of 60 carbon atoms, bust apart as they are struck by intense X-ray pulses at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source. (Greg Stewart/SLAC)