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Scientists create artificial catalysts inspired by living enzymes

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Researchers at SLAC and Stanford have created a nanostructured device, about half the size of a postage stamp, that harnesses more of the sun's...

A researcher holds a tiny device that uses sunlight to disinfect water.
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

The Contents of the Universe

How do scientists know what percentages of the universe are made up of dark matter and dark energy?

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Silicon chips can store data in billionths of a second, but phase-change memory could be 1,000 times faster, while using less energy and requiring...

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An interdisciplinary team has developed a way to track how particles charge and discharge at the nanoscale, an advance that will lead to better...

Scientists are using plasma to create electronic sensors that will track the health of astronauts.

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Now the startup, Lumeras LLC, has a viable commercial product, and scientists have a new tool for studying the behavior of complex materials.

Lumeras founder Andrew Merriam, left, and SLAC/Stanford Professor Zhi-Xun Shen with a tabletop laser the company developed
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What’s the difference between a synchrotron and a cyclotron, anyway?

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Four Stanford students receive funding for work on novel accelerators and beams for SLAC's X-ray laser.

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Science-interested teens spent a week at the lab learning more about STEM at the inaugural Greene Scholars Program Summer Science Institute at SLAC.

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Yi Cui and colleagues have developed new ways to improve hydrogen production and rechargeable zinc batteries.

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VIA Symmetry Magazine

The Neutrino Turns 60

Project Poltergeist led to the discovery of the ghostly particle.

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The results are an important step in designing these solid-state devices for computer memories that would operate much faster, last longer and use less...