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News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Supernova

Using Twinkles, the new simulation of images of our night sky, scientists get ready for a gigantic cosmological survey unlike any before.

Using an electric field, researchers drew magnetic designs in nonmagnetic material. These efforts could lead to new types of storage devices.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

How Heavy is a Neutrino?

The question is more complicated than it seems.

Computer simulations by SLAC physicists show how light pulses can create channels that conduct electricity with no resistance in some atomically thin semiconductors.

Scientists at Stanford and SLAC use diamondoids – the smallest possible bits of diamond – to assemble atoms into the thinnest possible electrical wires.

Diamondoids on a lab bench and under microscope, with penny for scale
News Feature · VIA Stanford News

Sidney Drell Dies at 90

Champion of nuclear nonproliferation, former deputy director of SLAC and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Sidney Drell was a groundbreaking researcher and outstanding leader who wanted to make the world a better place.

Photo of Sid Drell
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

2016 year in particle physics

Scientists furthered studies of the Higgs boson, neutrinos, dark matter, dark energy and cosmic inflation and continued the search for undiscovere

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Science with Sprinkles

Holiday guests will gravitate toward these physics cookies.

SLAC launched America’s first website on Dec. 12, 1991.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

A Syllabus in Cosmic Rays

What have scientists learned in five years of studying cosmic rays with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment?

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