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Symmetry: What Can Particles Tell Us About the Cosmos?
The minuscule and the immense can reveal quite a bit about each other.
Artificial Intelligence Analyzes Gravitational Lenses 10 Million Times Faster
Menlo Park, Calif. — Researchers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have for the first time shown that neural networks – a form of artificial intelligence – can accurately analyze the complex distortions in spacetime known as gravitational lenses 10 million times faster than traditional methods.
SLAC’s Blair Ratcliff Wins American Physical Society’s Instrumentation Award
Symmetry: Expanding the Search for Dark Matter
At a recent meeting, scientists shared ideas for searching for dark matter on the (relative) cheap.
Video: Dark Matter Hunt with LUX-ZEPLIN
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are on a quest to solve one of physics’ biggest mysteries: What exactly is dark matter – the invisible substance that accounts for 85 percent of all the matter in the universe but can’t be seen even with our most advanced scientific instruments?
Three SLAC Scientists Receive DOE Early Career Research Grants
Symmetry: A New Search for Dark Matter 6,800 Feet Underground
Standard Model of the Universe Withstands Most Precise Test by Dark Energy Survey
Construction of Massive Neutrino Experiment Kicks Off a Mile Underground
Symmetry: SLAC Accelerator Plans Appear in Smithsonian Art Exhibit
The late artist June Schwarcz found inspiration in some unusual wrapping paper her husband brought home from the lab.
