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SuperCDMS tower

From left, SCU Physics Prof. Betty Young, Software Developer Concetta "Tina" Cartaro and Senior Staff Scientist Richard Partridge put the fourth, and final, SuperCDMS...

October 13, 2022
The fourth, and final, SuperCDMS tower is put back into its storage container
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
Overhead view looking down into a white structure with dozens of orange circular components arranged radially.
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NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera

Vera C. Rubin Observatory will conduct the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which will collect 60 petabytes of data to address...

September 8, 2020  ·  00:02:40  runtime
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Fact sheet: Rubin Observatory - LSST Camera

A downloadable PDF fact sheet about the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the SLAC-built LSST Camera that will be used for the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

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News Brief

SLAC researchers measure how materials hotter than the sun’s surface conduct electricity

With a new method that could be extended to study Earth’s core and nuclear fusion, they identify and explain jumps in the electrical conductivity...

December 18, 2025  ·  3 min read
Illustration of a short laser pulse heating a sheet of aluminum, causing it to melt and break up into droplets.
News Brief
VIA Fermilab

Dark Energy Survey scientists release new analysis of how the universe expands

The latest results combined weak lensing and galaxy clustering and incorporated four dark energy probes from a single experiment for the first time.

January 22, 2026
Photo of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in the Chilean Andes at night.
SLAC Science Explained

LSST Camera: A moving picture of the cosmos

The LSST Camera explores cosmic mysteries as part of the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

June 1, 2022  ·  7 min read
The background shows a compilation of the first images taken with the LSST Camera at Rubin Observatory. The overlay shows the LSST Camera in the cleanroom at SLAC before it was shipped to be installed into the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
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LSST Camera explainer

Learn about the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), the SLAC-built LSST Camera and NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in this video.

October 4, 2022  ·  00:05:58  runtime
LSST Explainer | Mapping the universe
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What is the universe made of? SLAC experts weigh in on the mysterious force that shapes our cosmic history

Cosmologists Josh Frieman and Risa Wechsler look back on the Dark Energy Survey, sharing how it’s paving the way for Rubin Observatory to dig...

January 23, 2026  ·  9 min read
Josh Frieman and Risa Wechsler
SLAC Experts

Risa Wechsler

KIPAC Director, Professor of physics and of particle physics and astrophysics, Humanities and Sciences Professor

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

Risa Wechsler
SLAC Experts

Thomas Jaramillo

SUNCAT Director, Professor of chemical engineering, of energy science and engineering, and of photon science

Areas of research: Energy sciences; catalysis; sustainable production and use of fuels and chemicals

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SLAC EXPERTS

William Chueh

Director, SLAC-Stanford Battery Center; Director, Precourt Institute for Energy; Professor of materials science and engineering and of energy science and engineering; Faculty Scientist, Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES)

Areas of research:  energy science; materials for energy; clean energy; sustainability; batteries; energy storage and conversion electrochemistry; redox chemistry; engineering; materials science; X-ray science...

Portrait of Will Chueh