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Symmetry: Physics for the people
Citizen scientists dive into particle physics and astrophysics research.
SLAC and Stanford's James D. Bjorken Shares 2015 Wolf Prize in Physics
Honored for early theoretical predictions that helped elucidate the nature of the strong force and the structure of the proton, he is still shaking things up today.
Symmetry: What’s New for LHC Run II
The Large Hadron Collider gears up for restart.
Cosmic Inflation Remains Undiscovered
A previous study claiming the discovery of gravitational waves as cosmic inflation’s fingerprint has most likely been over-interpreted, scientists found in a joint analysis between the Planck and BICEP2 experiments.
Symmetry: Of Symmetries, the Strong Force and Helen Quinn
Scientist Helen Quinn has had a significant impact on the field of theoretical physics.
Symmetry: 20-Ton Magnet Heads to New York
A superconducting magnet begins its journey from SLAC laboratory in California to Brookhaven Lab in New York.
SLAC’s Peter Rowson Named American Physical Society Fellow
His election recognizes a long history of accomplishment that began more than two decades ago at the SLAC Linear Collider.
Is the Higgs Boson a Piece of the Matter-Antimatter Puzzle?
Experiments have helped explain some of the imbalance between matter and antimatter in the universe, but not all of it. Now a SLAC theorist and his colleagues have laid out a possible method for determining if the Higgs boson is involved.
Symmetry: Searching for a Dark Light
A new experiment is on the hunt for dark photons, hypothetical messengers of an invisible universe.
President Obama Bestows National Medal of Science on SLAC Director Emeritus and Nobelist Burton Richter
Burton Richter, Nobel laureate and director emeritus of SLAC, has received the National Medal of Science – the nation's highest honor for achievement in the field of science.
