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Tomorrow's innovations will come from autonomous labs that slash discovery time, and SLAC's facilities are taking the lead in a new collaboration with Stanford, other national labs, universities, and industry.

Illustration depicting self-driving lab from accelerator to experiment

Announced by the DOE today, the funded project will explore the use of Super Intelligence to accelerate our understanding of a process central to energy and chemical production. SLAC will also play a key role in eight other Genesis Mission...

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The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment observed a particle interaction that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPs, a dark matter candidate – but researchers will need more data to confirm.

A researcher in protective gear works near a tall, cylindrical scientific instrument with visible wiring. The visible walls surrounding it are reflective Teflon.

Researchers from the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center join USC in a project to help secure the U.S. supply of critical minerals.

Illustration of battery waste, AI agents and critical minerals

The 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time has officially started, marking the beginning of a new era in astronomy and astrophysics.

The research sheds light on how a key regulator of inflammation forms, which could help guide new therapeutic approaches to inflammatory diseases.

The experiment’s detectors have reached their operating temperature, almost a thousand times colder than outer space.

SuperCDMS team members posing with a detector tower.

NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory has issued its first scientific alerts, marking a historic milestone in astrophysics and kicking off a new era of dynamic, real-time observation of the night sky.

Star-filled teal night sky with turquoise glowing band, scattered “DATA ALERT” tags, and a white icon of the Rubin Observatory atop dark mountains.

First peer-reviewed paper using data from SLAC-built LSST Camera identifies an asteroid, nearly the size of eight football fields, rotating every two minutes.

Surfing a plasma wave, electrons get an energy and brightness boost.

Illustration of electrons traveling through a plasma chamber

SLAC leads new project to build the self-driving laboratory of the future

SLAC to lead a Department of Energy Genesis Mission project for Super Intelligence (SI)-driven autonomous discovery in catalysis

LZ sees surprising result in search for dark matter

SLAC to lead Genesis Mission AI project to recover critical metals from lithium-ion battery waste

Action! NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory begins capturing the greatest cosmic movie ever made

SLAC scientists capture early stages of immune response inside cells

SuperCDMS SNOLAB cools down to near absolute zero, setting the stage for one of the world’s most sensitive dark matter searches

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory launches real-time discovery machine for monitoring the night sky

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory spots record-breaking asteroid in pre-survey observations

SLAC and UCLA researchers build plasma accelerator that boosts electron energy and brightness at the same time