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This week 200 members of the Cosmic Microwave Background Stage-4 (CMB-S4) collaboration are meeting at SLAC to focus on the continuing development of this science research project. CMB-S4 and the next generation telescopes will provide measurements of the cosmic...

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How does sunscreen work on the atomic level?

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Areas of research: S3DF (SLAC Shared Science Data Facility); evaluating technologies for massive scale analytics; forming partnerships with technology providers; developing and recruiting computing skills and competencies; supporting science users’ requirements and operational issues; creating business models and technology roadmaps...

Areas of research: New technologies; machine learning; deep learning; artificial intelligence; accelerator physics; physics and machine learning

Areas of research: Physics of the universe; cosmology; astrophysical simulations; galaxy formation; galaxy surveys; dark matter; dark energy

Areas of research: Physics of the universe; particle physics; LHC physics with the ATLAS Experiment; Higgs boson; advanced accelerator R&D; future electron-positron collider R&D; tracker detectors

To understand why scientists are excited about detecting a new background, just look to the history of studies of the CMB.

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Just because matter is visible doesn’t mean it’s easy to see.

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If scaled up successfully, the team's new system could help answer questions about certain kinds of superconductors and other unusual states of matter.

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Line intensity mapping measurements taken with a new instrument will allow astrophysicists to study galaxies too far away for traditional methods.

When upgrades to the X-ray laser at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are complete, the powerful new machine will capture up to 1 terabyte of data per second; that’s a data rate equivalent to streaming about one...

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Imagining the future of gravitational-wave research

Searching for the matter that hides its shine

Researchers take a step toward novel quantum simulators

The universe’s missing teenage pictures

Bigger, faster, more powerful: SLAC’s new X-ray laser data system will process a million images a second