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Researchers at SLAC have for the first time seen a spin current – an inherent magnetic property common to all electrons – as it travels across materials.

Image - This illustration shows the flow of a magnetic property of electrons known as spin current from a magnetic material (blue), to a nonmagnetic material (red). (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Combined Results Find Higgs Still Standard

The CMS and ATLAS experiments combined forces to more precisely measure properties of the Higgs boson.

ATLAS experiment image

A major international effort at SLAC is focused on improving our views of intact viruses, living bacteria and other tiny samples using the brightest X-ray light on Earth.

Researchers monitor the performance of a single particle imaging experiment

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, scientists got a textbook-worthy result that may change the way matter is probed at X-ray free-electron lasers.

The Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser at SLAC

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope’s ‘Eye’ Will be Built at SLAC.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Looking for Strings Inside Inflation

Theorists from the Institute for Advanced Study have proposed a way forward in the quest to test string theory.

A SLAC-led research team working at the lab’s FACET facility has demonstrated a new way of accelerating positrons that could help develop smaller, more economical future particle colliders.

Simulation of high-energy positron acceleration in an ionized gas, or plasma
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

All About Supernovae

Exploding stars have an immense capacity to destroy—and create.

Graham George and Ingrid Pickering, a husband and wife X-ray research team, are co-leading a new study in Bangladesh to test whether selenium supplements can protect people from arsenic poisoning.

Image - Ingrid Pickering and Graham George, a husband-and-wife X-ray research team, stand next to the controls of SSRL Beam Line 7-3 during a research sabbatical at SLAC. (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

The Age of the Universe

How can we figure out when the universe began?

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