Nathan Collins

Managing Editor & News Center Lead

Nathan runs the news center for SLAC, which he joined in 2020 after three years at the Stanford News Service. Before that, he spent two and a half years at Pacific Standard covering social science, climate change and a host of other topics every weekday. He holds degrees in physics from the University of Washington and MIT and a PhD in political science from Stanford.

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News Feature

The first pair of towers are now at the Ontario facility, where they'll further the hunt for dark matter particles.

News Feature

Just because matter is visible doesn’t mean it’s easy to see.

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News Brief

A new study probing the structure and evolution of galaxy clusters shows good agreement with the predictions of standard cosmological models.

A cluster of bright galaxies on a black background.

News Feature

If scaled up successfully, the team's new system could help answer questions about certain kinds of superconductors and other unusual states of matter.

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News Brief

Bernhard Mistlberger will receive the APS's 2023 Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics for his work on precision Standard Model calculations.

News Feature

To capture as much information as possible about clouds of atoms at the heart of the MAGIS-100 experiment, SLAC scientists devised a dome of...

an array of rainbow-tinted views of a tiny 3D object that spells "DOE"

The first pair of towers are now at the Ontario facility, where they'll further the hunt for dark matter particles.

Just because matter is visible doesn’t mean it’s easy to see.

A new study probing the structure and evolution of galaxy clusters shows good agreement with the predictions of standard cosmological models.

If scaled up successfully, the team's new system could help answer questions about certain kinds of superconductors and other unusual states of matter.

Bernhard Mistlberger will receive the APS's 2023 Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics for his work on precision Standard Model calculations.

To capture as much information as possible about clouds of atoms at the heart of the MAGIS-100 experiment, SLAC scientists devised a dome of mirrors that gathers more light from more angles.

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Expecting the Unexpected with AI at Particle Colliders

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First SuperCDMS detector towers journey from SLAC to SNOLAB

Searching for the matter that hides its shine

Galaxy clusters yield new evidence for standard model of cosmology

Researchers take a step toward novel quantum simulators

SLAC physicist wins American Physical Society early career award

How do you take a better image of atom clouds? Mirrors – lots of mirrors

Written by Nathan Collins