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When the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) opened its giant eye last week and began taking pictures of the ancient light from far-off galaxies, more...

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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

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An artist’s depiction of a tiny pore in the crystalline shell of an ammonia-eating archaea microbe; surrounding proteins are shown...

Artist's depiction of a tiny pore in an archaea's crystalline shell

Public Lecture Poster

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

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Cornelius Gati and other researchers were studying a protein thought to be important for the progression of tuberculosis when they made a strange discovery...

Tuberculosis Protein New Discovery 2020 // Cornelius GATI

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Sander Breur from SLAC’s EXO neutrino research group, describes the acute shortage ventilator project.

SLAC scientists invent low-cost emergency ventilator

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Crystals of the soil virus AMG product (chitosanase) at 400x magnification. Individual crystals were cryo-cooled in liquid nitrogen before being...

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This image shows how SARS-CoV-2 Mpro recognizes and cuts NEMO based on the crystal structure determined using a powerful X-ray beam at SSRL Beam Line 12-2. (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

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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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Stanford’s Roger Kornberg received the 2006 chemistry Nobel for work on RNA transcriptase, shown on screens.

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Revealing the Secrets of Transistors using Supercomputers

First Images from the Dark Energy Camera Help SLAC-Stanford Astrophysicists Seek the Invisible

Getting the Jump on Big Data for LSST

SuperCDMS Location

Cryo-EM poster

Depiction of a tiny pore in the crystalline shell of an ammonia-eating archaea microbe

A sparkle in the dark poster

Tuberculosis Protein

SLAC acute shortage ventilator project

Chitosanase crystals

SARS-CoV-2 Mpro

How krypton is removed from xenon gas

Roger Kornberg