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Efforts are already underway to ensure that the data the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope collects will be ready to be mined for scientific gold.

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The SuperCDMS dark matter experiment will be located at the Canadian laboratory SNOLAB, 2 kilometers (6,800 feet) underground inside a...

Public Lecture Poster

Public lecture called A sparkle in the dark: the outlandish quest for dark matter

Animation

This animation shows how krypton (red) is removed from xenon gas (blue) by flowing the combined gases through a column...

A blue cloud with red spots travels downward, passing gray spots. As it does, the red spots move downward faster.

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Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET-II).

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A look inside SLAC’s FACET-II test facility, where scientists use electron beams to advance revolutionary technologies that could make future particle accelerators much smaller...

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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will take the most thorough survey ever of the Southern sky.

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21 of these "science rafts" will go into the world's largest digital camera for astronomy, which is being assembled and tested at SLAC.

Past Event

Presented by Justin Myles. As the universe expanded from the Big Bang, regions where the density of matter was higher than average grew into...

illustration of a tug of war in the universe

News Brief

Bernhard Mistlberger will receive the APS's 2023 Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics for his work on precision Standard Model calculations.

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Two GEM Fellows reflect on their summer internships at SLAC and share their thoughts on representation and mentorship.

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LSST Camera images provide the inspiration for artist Lennart Lahuis’s “Astromelancholia.”

Who we are

SLAC science explained

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST

Careers at SLAC

Revealing the Secrets of Transistors using Supercomputers

Getting the Jump on Big Data for LSST

SuperCDMS Location

A sparkle in the dark poster

How krypton is removed from xenon gas

Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET-II)

SLAC's FACET-II test facility

LSST Construction Begins

Photos: LSST Camera's First Sensor Array Arrives

The Tug of War that Shapes the Universe

SLAC physicist wins American Physical Society early career award

GEM Fellowship aims to increase representation in STEM

Finding art in astrophysics technology