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August 25, 2020
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Auralee Edelen and Wai Ling Wu receive 2020 Panofsky Fellowships at SLAC
Their work uses machine learning to transform the way scientists tune particle accelerators for experiments and solve longstanding mysteries in astrophysics and cosmology.
Portraits of Auralee Edelen and Kimmy Wu
August 21, 2020
News Feature
Bringing science home: SLAC’s summer programs go virtual
Online educational programs offer new possibilities.
virtual internships
August 20, 2020
News Feature
A new X-ray detector snaps 1,000 atomic-level pictures per second of nature's ultrafast processes
The ePix10k detector is ready to advance science at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser and at facilities around the world.
ePix10k
August 19, 2020
News Feature
Peter Chung wins 2020 Spicer Young Investigator Award for work on neurodegenerative disease
Chung is being recognized for pathbreaking contributions to the study of proteins involved in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases and for mentoring the next generation of synchrotron scientists.
August 18, 2020
News Brief
Cryo-EM study yields new clues to chicken pox infection
Stanford and SLAC scientists studying the varicella zoster virus found that an antibody that blocks infection doesn’t work exactly as they’d thought.
August 14, 2020
News Feature
SLAC scientists develop new method to create super stable X-rays
The technique could improve the efficiency of data collection and pave the way for new kinds of experiments.
undulatorhall
August 13, 2020
Press Release
SLAC scientists invent low-cost emergency ventilator and share the design for free
The technology could save the lives of COVID-19 patients when more advanced ventilators are too expensive or not available.
Ventilator Prototype
August 6, 2020
News Brief
Researchers tease out the unique chemical fingerprint of the most aggressive free radical in living things
The technique they used will offer insight into many different chemical reactions.
hydroxyl radical
August 5, 2020
News Feature
Shedding light on stellar evolution
Researchers developed a way to measure the basic properties of matter at the highest pressures thus far achieved in a controlled laboratory experiment.
White dwarf
August 4, 2020
News Feature
Dark Energy Survey census of the smallest galaxies hones the search for dark matter
Observations of dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way have yielded simultaneous constraints on three popular theories of dark matter.

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