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A decade-long search ends at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, where researchers from The Scripps Research Institute emerge with a clear picture of how the deadly Lassa virus enters human cells.

illustration of Lassa virus protein molecular structure

When scientists at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory focused the full intensity of the world’s most powerful X-ray l

molecular black hole
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

A Brief Etymology of Particle Physics

How did the proton, photon and other particles get their names?

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

First Results from Search for a Dark Light

The Heavy Photon Search at Jefferson Lab is looking for a hypothetical particle from a hidden “dark sector.”

Heavy Photon Search.
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

LHC Swings Back into Action

Protons are colliding once again in the Large Hadron Collider.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

The Facts and Nothing but the Facts

At a recent workshop on blind analysis, researchers discussed how to keep their expectations out of their results.

Blind Analysis

Frederico Fiuza and his team are conducting thorough investigations of plasma physics to discern the fundamental processes that accelerate particles.

Sensitive gamma-ray “eye” on NASA’s Fermi space telescope continues to provide unprecedented views of violent phenomena in the cosmos.

Fermi in Space.
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Sterile Neutrino Search Hits Roadblock at Reactors

A new result from the Daya Bay collaboration reveals both limitations and strengths of experiments studying antineutrinos at nuclear reactors.

Claudio Pellegrini, a distinguished professor emeritus of physics at UCLA and adjunct professor of photon science at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his “distinguished and...

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