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Three Stanford Professors Honored by Breakthrough Prize Foundation
KIPAC's Leonardo Senatore was among three Stanford professors to receive awards during a star-studded award ceremony Sunday night. Karl Deisseroth (pictured) took a top honor with a $3 million Breakthrough Prize in life science.
Symmetry: The Particle Physics of You
Not only are we made of fundamental particles, we also produce them and are constantly bombarded by them throughout the day.
First Neutrino Sightings by MicroBooNE
Researchers hope that the new experiment will shine light on how elementary neutrinos morph from one type into another.
Xexon, Xenon Everywhere
It’s in the air we breathe, but it’s not so easy to get ahold of 10 metric tons of xenon in its liquid form for the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment.
Mysterious Neutrinos Take the Stage at SLAC
SLAC is ramping up its efforts to understand neutrinos – elusive fundamental particles whose properties may help researchers solve a number of cosmic mysteries.
DESI, an Ambitious Probe of Dark Energy, Achieves its Next Major Milestone
The DOE has approved the project’s scientific scope, schedule and funding. SLAC researchers are among the 200 physicists and astronomers who make up the international DESI Collaboration.
World’s Most Powerful Digital Camera Sees Construction Green Light
The Department of Energy has approved the start of construction for a 3.2-gigapixel digital camera – the world’s largest – at the heart of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).
Symmetry: The Age of the Universe
How can we figure out when the universe began?
Dark Energy Survey Finds More Celestial Neighbors
Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey, using one of the world’s most powerful digital cameras, have discovered eight more faint celestial objects hovering near our Milky Way galaxy.
Symmetry: IceCube Sees Highest-Energy Neutrino Ever Found
Observations of this kind could lead scientists to the source of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
