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Switching materials in a flash
Controlling materials with single light pulses could be used in next-gen data storage devices
Gamma rays, where art thou?
Fermi study of missing gamma-ray blobs sheds new light on dark matter, cosmic magnetism
SMC dark matter halo
Symmetry: Progress in PWFA for positrons
New studies show promise, challenge of plasma wakefield acceleration
Symmetry: The 3-ton ruler
Scientists are using a specialized measuring machine to build precise detectors for the ATLAS experiment
Measuring machine

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Symmetry: Five mysteries the Standard Model can’t explain
Our best model of particle physics explains only about 5 percent of the universe.
ESnet: ESnet's network, software help SLAC researchers in record-setting transfer of 1 petabyte of data
Using a 5,000-mile network loop operated by ESnet, researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC...
Symmetry: Studying the stars with machine learning

To keep up with an impending astronomical increase in data about our universe, astrophysicists...
Peering into 36-million-degree plasma with SLAC’s X-ray laser
In a first, researchers measure extremely small and fast changes that occur in plasma when it’s...
LCLS Plasma Expansion
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Did Dark Matter Have a Chilling Effect on the Early Universe?
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