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January 13, 2020

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Connecting the dots in the sky could shed new light on dark matter

Matching up maps of matter and light from the Dark Energy Survey and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may help astrophysicists understand what causes a faint cosmic gamma-ray glow.

January 7, 2020

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Vera Rubin, giant of astronomy

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will be named for an influential astronomer who left the field better than she found it.

November 6, 2019

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Daniel Gruen awarded 2019 Panofsky Fellowship at SLAC

His work aims to deepen our understanding of dark matter, dark energy and other secrets of the universe.

September 30, 2019

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A day in the life of a cosmic-ray ‘bookkeeper’

Early-career physicist Jonathan LeyVa helps build one of the world’s most sensitive dark matter detectors.

September 26, 2019

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SLAC/Stanford are developing a radio that searches for dark matter

An “out there” theory inspired the development of the Dark Matter Radio, a device that could explain the mysterious matter that makes up 85 percent of the mass of our universe.

July 18, 2019

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A day in the life of a dark matter data wrangler

Maria Elena Monzani prepares an international team to search for clues to one of the biggest scientific mysteries.

Maria Elena Monzani at the LZ test facility

July 11, 2019

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Light dark matter is a thousand times less likely to bump into regular matter than previous astrophysical analyses allowed

A SLAC/Stanford study of the population of satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way provides new clues about the particle nature of dark matter.

June 20, 2019

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SLAC sends off woven grids for LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector

Four large meshes made from 2 miles of metal wire will extract potential signals of dark matter particles.

June 19, 2019

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A miniature camera for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will help test the observatory and take first images

SLAC completed its work on ComCam, a commissioning device to be installed in Chile later this year.

June 4, 2019

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Symmetry: Engineering the world’s largest digital camera

Building the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope also means solving extraordinary technological challenges.

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