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News Release

LZ sets a world’s best in the hunt for galactic dark matter and gets a new look at neutrinos from the sun’s core

In the largest dataset ever collected by a dark matter detector, LUX-ZEPLIN's latest results provide the strongest constraints on low-mass WIMPs and detect boron-8...

December 8, 2025  ·  9 min read
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SuperCDMS SNOLAB cools down to near absolute zero, setting the stage for one of the world’s most sensitive dark matter searches

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

March 17, 2026  ·  6 min read
SuperCDMS team members posing with a detector tower.
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SLAC’s 2025 Panofsky Fellow Ann Wang hunts for dark matter

Her work will advance a next-generation experiment in the hope of detecting this mysterious ingredient of the universe.

September 24, 2025  ·  3 min read
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SLAC leads new project to build the self-driving laboratory of the future

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...

October 8, 2026  ·  13 min read
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News Brief

Researchers make ‘molecular movies’ with powerful X-rays to help advance therapeutics

Using X-ray free-electron lasers like SLAC’s LCLS, researchers study how enzymes catalyze reactions, which could help them develop drugs and other medical treatments.

October 9, 2026  ·  6 min read
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SLAC on Tap

SLAC on Tap: Night of the Dark Matter

Something is lurking in the dark. Dark matter makes up most of the matter in the universe, yet it continues to slip through our...
Date Wednesday, October 28, 2026
5:30 p.m.  –  7:00 p.m.  PT
Location The Dutch Goose, 3567 Alameda de las Pulgas, Menlo Park, CA 94025
SLAC on Tap
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Shaun Burd and Miguel Correia awarded 2026 Panofsky Fellowships at SLAC

They will explore proteins that are sensitive to magnetic fields and equations that explain our universe at the smallest and largest scales. 

October 19, 2026  ·  7 min read
Miguel Correia and Shaun Burd
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SLAC’s X-ray laser sets a record for shortest high-energy pulses ever generated by an XFEL

Researchers at SLAC are using high-energy X-ray pulses probe electronic motion deep within atoms and dense plasmas. 

October 20, 2026  ·  5 min read
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Ground Breaking New Science at SLAC

The Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center officially broke ground today for the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world's first X-ray free-electron...

October 20, 2006  ·  2 min read
LCLS ground breaking ceremony
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Seagull Nebula through the eyes of NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Commissioning Camera

Star formation populates this image of the Seagull Nebula taken in Fall 2024 by Rubin Observatory’s engineering test camera.

October 22, 2026
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