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February 24, 2020
News Brief
Radio waves detect particle showers in a block of plastic
A cheap technique could detect neutrinos in polar ice, eventually allowing researchers to expand the energy reach of IceCube without breaking the bank.
Radar echo
January 13, 2020
News Feature
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.
DES-Fermi
October 21, 2019
News Feature
Symmetry: Scientists combine forces to study first light
Scientists are designing a next-generation experiment to map the Big Bang’s relic afterglow.
September 30, 2019
News Feature
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.
Jonathan LeyVa/SuperCDMS
September 26, 2019
News Feature
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.
Dark Matter Radio
September 24, 2019
News Feature
In brief: Researchers home in on extremely rare nuclear process
The complete data from the EXO-200 experiment provide new information on neutrinoless double beta decay and set the stage for future experiments that will search for the hypothetical process.
EXO-200
August 12, 2019
News Feature
Atomic ‘Trojan horse’ could inspire new generation of X-ray lasers and particle colliders
At SLAC’s FACET facility, researchers have produced an intense electron beam by 'sneaking’ electrons into plasma, demonstrating a method that could be used in future compact discovery machines that explore the subatomic world.
Trojan horse illustration
July 23, 2019
News Feature
Symmetry: Massless particles can’t be stopped
If a particle has no mass, how can it exist?
July 11, 2019
News Feature
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.
Dark matter simulation
June 25, 2019
News Feature
Symmetry: The future of particle accelerators may be autonomous
Particle accelerators are some of the most complicated machines in science.

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