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June 22, 2022
News Feature
SLAC physicists Natalia Toro and Philip Schuster win DOE's prestigious E.O. Lawrence Awards
Toro and Schuster are being recognized for their contributions to the design of experiments that use particle accelerators to search for dark matter particles.
June 9, 2022
News Feature
SLAC’s Auralee Edelen and Noah Kurinsky receive prestigious DOE Early Career Awards
Edelen draws on machine learning to fine tune particle accelerators, while Kurinsky develops dark matter detectors informed by quantum information science.
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April 5, 2022
News Feature
Q&A: How SLAC's Technology Innovation Directorate serves as the backbone of discovery at the lab
The leaders of SLAC's Technology Innovation Directorate discuss how their group supports the lab's most innovative projects.
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January 26, 2022
News Feature
Symmetry
Symmetry: What is a quantum network?
As we step into the quantum age, here are four things to know about quantum networks.
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January 25, 2022
News Feature
Symmetry
Symmetry: The quantum squeeze
A technique from the newest generation of quantum sensors is helping scientists to use the limitations of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to their advantage.
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January 24, 2022
News Feature
Symmetry
Symmetry: More than one way to make a qubit
Scientists are exploring a variety of ways to make quantum bits. We may not need to settle on a single one.
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December 13, 2021
News Feature
SLAC’s Tony Johnson remembers the WWW Wizards and the birth of North America’s first website
This month marks the 30-year anniversary of the first website in North America, launched at SLAC. In this Q&A, one of the Wizards recalls the motivation that spawned the development and how it has changed the work of scientists.
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July 19, 2021
News Feature
Scientists discover how high-energy electrons strengthen magnetic fields
The research could lead to a better understanding of extreme astrophysical environments and the development of compact high-energy radiation sources for science.
high-energy electrons strengthen magnetic fields
June 16, 2021
News Brief
SLAC physicist honored for precision particle theory research
Bernhard Mistlberger has developed new methods to make Standard Model predictions more precise than ever. The European Physical Society recently awarded him the 2021 Gribov Medal for his contributions.
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June 3, 2021
News Feature
SLAC’s Panofsky fellows talk about what makes their research so exciting
From the invisible world of elementary particles to the mysteries of the cosmos, recipients of this prestigious award for early career scientists explore nature at every level.
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