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Scientists create artificial catalysts inspired by living enzymes

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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...

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A SLAC/Stanford study opens a new path to producing laser pulses that are just billionths of a billionth of a second long by inducing...

Stanford graduate student Georges Ndabashimiye in the PULSE Institute laser lab
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What Is a “Particle”?

Quantum physics says everything is made of particles, but what does that actually mean?

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1,000 Meters Below

Meet the world’s deepest underground physics facilities.

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Finding ways to handle torrents of data from LSST and LCLS-II will also advance “exascale” computing.

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Taken at SLAC, microscopic footage of exploding liquids will give researchers more control over experiments at X-ray lasers.

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Following LIGO’s Treasure Maps

Astronomers around the world are looking for visible sources of gravitational waves.

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The upgraded experiment aims to discover if neutrinos are their own antiparticles.

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A GUT Feeling about Physics

Scientists want to connect the fundamental forces of nature in one Grand Unified Theory.

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New ‘GREEN-RF’ Technology Recycles Energy that Would Otherwise Go to Waste in Accelerating Particles for Science, Medicine, Industry

Looking down the SLAC Klystron Gallery.
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Using data from the world’s most powerful X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, an international team of scientists has...