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Nobelist Burton Richter Dead at 87
The SLAC Director Emeritus Designed Accelerators and Did Experiments That Proved the Existence of the Charm Quark
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To Break or Not to Break?
'Electron Camera' Catches Molecules at the Moment They Decide How to Respond to Light
UED Bond Breaking
Predicting Recipes for New Materials
X-ray Experiment Confirms a New Computational Approach to Designing Materials for Energy Technologies
polymorph formation
Cooking Gold for Tougher Materials
Atomic Movie of Melting Gold Could Help Design Materials for Fusion Reactors
UED Gold Melting

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A Next-Gen EEG Could Help Bring Back Lost Brain Function
SLAC and Stanford researchers are developing a device that combines electrical brain stimulation with EEG recording, opening potential new paths for treating neurological disorders.
Neurostimulation
Four SLAC Scientists Awarded Prestigious DOE Early Career Research Grants
Tais Gorkhover, Michael Kagan, Kazuhiro Terao and Joshua Turner will each receive $2.5 million for...
Photos of SLAC's 2018 Early Career Award winners
Scientists Make the First Molecular Movie of One of Nature’s Most Widely Used Light Sensors
The X-ray laser movie shows what happens when light hits retinal, a key part of vision in animals...
An image of San Francisco Bay salt ponds from space
SLAC, Stanford Scientists Discover How a Hardy Microbe’s Crystalline Shell Helps it Reel in Food
Tiny pores in the shells of archaea microbes attract ammonium ions that are their sole source of...
Artist's depiction of a tiny pore in an archaea's crystalline shell
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Physicists Go Small: Let's Put a Particle Accelerator on a Chip
NPR
Did Dark Matter Have a Chilling Effect on the Early Universe?
Physics World
New Atomic Movie Shows How a Single Molecule Responds to Light
IFLScience
Jolt the Brain, Then Listen Closely
IEEE Spectrum
A Fresh Slice of Electrons Feeds Enhanced X-Rays
Physics
Stanford's New Lab Could Make Particle Accelerators 1,000 Times Smaller
Engadget

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