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Browse the full collection of SLAC press releases and news features and stay up to date on the latest scientific advancements at the laboratory.

SLAC is taking part in a multi-institutional effort to help reach net-zero carbon emissions goals in difficult-to-electrify industries.

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News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Symmetry: AI for control rooms

Scientists inside and outside of particle physics and astrophysics are leaning on AI for assistance with complex tasks.

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Devereaux was honored for contributions to materials science and was among seven Stanford-affiliated researchers named AAAS Fellows this year.

Thomas Devereaux
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Symmetry: Physics vocabulary, AI edition

Do you know your convolutional neural networks from your boosted decision trees?

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In the coming weeks, Symmetry will explore the ways scientists are using artificial intelligence to advance particle physics and astrophysics—in a series of articles written and illustrated entirely by humans.

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The team developed a groundbreaking method that harnesses the structure of light to twist and tweak the properties of quantum materials. 

quantum control

Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s stunningly detailed images will illuminate distant stellar streams and their past encounters with dark matter.

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Researchers have used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to make the largest 3D map of our universe and world-leading measurements of dark energy, the mysterious force behind its accelerating expansion.

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Once set in place atop a telescope in Chile, the 3,200-megapixel LSST Camera will help researchers better understand dark matter, dark energy and other mysteries of our universe.

Researchers examine the LSST Camera

In a new study, SLAC researchers suggest a small-scale solution could be the key to solving a large-scale mystery.

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