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February 22, 2019

News Feature

SLAC-Stanford partnership lauded

SLAC Director Chi-Chang Kao spoke to the Stanford University Faculty Senate at its Feb. 21 meeting.

Chi-Chang Kao at Stanford Faculty Senate meeting

February 19, 2019

News Feature

Symmetry: An astronomical data challenge

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will track billions of objects for 10 years, creating unprecedented opportunities for studies of cosmic mysteries.

January 8, 2019

News Feature

Symmetry: Dark Energy Survey completes six-year mission

Scientists, including researchers at SLAC, have only just begun to study the remarkably detailed map they created of a portion of the sky.

December 13, 2018

Press Release

Tangled magnetic fields power cosmic particle accelerators

SLAC scientists find a new way to explain how a black hole’s plasma jets boost particles to the highest energies observed in the universe. The results could also prove useful for fusion and accelerator research on Earth.

November 13, 2018

News Feature

Symmetry: Gravitational lenses

Predicted by Einstein and discovered in 1979, gravitational lensing helps astrophysicists understand the evolving shape of the universe.

October 23, 2018

News Feature

Symmetry: The building boom

These projects, selected during the process to plan the future of US particle physics, are all set to come online within the next 10 years.

October 18, 2018

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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.

October 15, 2018

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Missing gamma-ray blobs shed new light on dark matter, cosmic magnetism

Astrophysicists use a catalog of extended gamma-ray sources spotted by Fermi spacecraft to home in on mysterious properties of deep space.

October 2, 2018

News Feature

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 zapped with a laser. Their technique will have applications in astrophysics, medicine and fusion energy.

August 23, 2018

News Feature

How SLAC’s ‘electronics artists’ enable cutting-edge science

A team of electrical designers develops specialized microchips for a broad range of scientific applications, including X-ray science and particle physics.

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