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VIA Symmetry Magazine

CERN Turns 60

CERN celebrates six decades of peaceful collaboration for science.

September 29, 2014
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Getting the Jump on Big Data for LSST

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

June 27, 2014
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A Look Inside SLAC’s Battery Lab

Sulfur Cathode Experiments Test Chemistry Beyond Conventional Lithium-Ion

July 17, 2014  ·  3 min read
Photo - scientist preparing a dime-sized prototype battery
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VIA Stanford Magazine

Charging Ahead

SLAC and Stanford's Yi Cui leads the quest to build more energetic batteries. For SSRL's involvement, read the sidebar "Batteries: An Inside Story."

July 14, 2014
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DESI, an Ambitious Probe of Dark Energy, Achieves its Next Major Milestone

The DOE has approved the project’s scientific scope, schedule and funding. SLAC researchers are among the 200 physicists and astronomers who make up the...

September 21, 2015
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Public lecture

The New Grid: 100% Clean Energy for All

Presented by Sila Kiliccote. The grid that transmits our electrical power needs a radical transformation.  The structure of the grid has not changed fundamentally...

Date Tuesday, May 29, 2018
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium, Science and User Support building
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Scientists Complete the First “Science Raft” for the LSST

The raft is part of the sensor array that will make up the crucial camera segment of the telescope.

July 3, 2017
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Standard model of the Universe withstands most precise test by Dark Energy Survey

SLAC and Stanford astrophysicists made crucial contributions to the galaxy survey, showing that the universe clumps and expands as predicted by our best cosmological...

August 3, 2017  ·  6 min read
Blanco Telescope
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A Speed Trap for Dark Matter

Analyzing the motion of X-ray sources could help researchers identify dark matter signals.

January 19, 2016
News Release

Putting Silicon ‘Sawdust’ in a Graphene Cage Boosts Battery Performance

Wrapping silicon anode particles in custom-fit graphene cages could solve two major obstacles to using silicon in high-capacity lithium ion batteries.

January 28, 2016  ·  4 min read
Illustration of silicon particles with and without graphene cages
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

The Next Gamma-Ray Eye on the Sky

Scientists have successfully tested the first prototype camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array.

December 11, 2015
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Photos: LSST Camera's First Sensor Array Arrives

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

November 21, 2017
First LSST Science Raft
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