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Revealing nature’s fastest processes with X-rays, lasers and electrons
Studying the particles and forces that knit the cosmos together
Building smaller, faster, more powerful accelerators for all
Understanding the machinery of life at its most basic level
Inventing new tools for science and society
Finding clean, sustainable solutions for the world’s energy challenges
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Linac Coherent Light Source
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests
Cryogenic Electron Microscopy
Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Science
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology
Stanford PULSE Institute
Center for Interface Science & Catalysis
SLAC & Stanford build the world’s largest digital camera for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
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This joint publication of SLAC and Fermilab is your view into the world of particle physics.
Dark energy is everywhere. It will determine the fate of our universe. And we still have no idea what it is.
Scientists are ready to handle the increased data of the current run of the Large Hadron Collider.
Pentaquarks are no longer just a theory.
What are WIMPs, and what makes them such popular dark matter candidates?
In separate studies, researchers at Stanford and the University of Wisconsin-Madison report advances on chemical reactions essential to fuel-cell technology.
The ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC see something mysterious, but it’s too soon to pop the Champagne.
Explore the elementary particles that make up our universe.
Our universe could be just one small piece of a bubbling multiverse.
Physicists discovered one type of Higgs boson in 2012. Now they’re looking for more.
Observations of this kind could lead scientists to the source of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
Why are there three almost identical copies of each particle of matter?
Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Reveals Rapid Motions of Atoms and Molecules