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November 13, 2020
Meet the kaon
Nearly 75 years after the puzzling first detection of the kaon, scientists are still looking to the particle for hints of physics beyond their current understanding.
A board game called "Strange Kaons"
September 30, 2020
News Feature
Q&A: How machine learning helps scientists hunt for particles, wrangle floppy proteins and speed discovery
Daniel Ratner, head of SLAC’s machine learning initiative, explains the lab’s unique opportunities to advance scientific discovery through machine learning.
Daniel Ratner
April 29, 2020
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Blas Cabrera and Arun Majumdar elected to National Academy of Sciences
The SLAC/Stanford scientists are among 120 new members of an organization that advises the nation on science and technology issues.
NAS 2020
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

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