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Researchers around the world pursue three approaches to look for fingerprints of dark matter's ghostly components: on the Earth’s surface, underground and in space.

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The centerpiece of the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment will be four detector towers (left), each containing six detector packs. The towers will be mounted inside...

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In 2019, researchers plan to replace the current dark matter experiment LUX with the more sensitive LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ). It will be located one mile...

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Addressing the challenges of making state-of-the-art measurements with imperfect detectors.

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Physicists have good reason to believe 85 percent of the matter in the universe is currently undetectable. But not being able to see it...

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The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) announced today that Dr. Steven M. Kahn will assume the role of Director of the...

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Physics may seem like its own world, but different sectors using machine learning are all part of the same universe.

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Machine learning is becoming an essential part of a physicist’s toolkit. How should new students learn to use it?

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Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s stunningly detailed images will illuminate distant stellar streams and their past encounters with dark matter.

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Researchers have used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to make the largest 3D map of our universe and world-leading measurements of dark energy, the...

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The Stanford-SLAC Cryo-EM Center will host an advanced cryo-EM image processing workshop.

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Revealing the Secrets of Transistors using Supercomputers

Three approaches to look for fingerprints of dark matter

SuperCDMS SNOLAB Detector Diagram

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) underground diagram

Image Sensors for Precision Astronomy (ISPA 2024)

SLAC Summer Institute Students Take a Close Look at Dark Matter

Steven M. Kahn Named Director of LSST

Symmetry: A physicists’ guide to the ethics of artificial intelligence

Tomorrow’s physics test: machine learning

Rubin Observatory will reveal dark matter’s ghostly disruptions of stellar streams

First results from DESI make the most precise measurement of our expanding universe

Radio Axion: Tuning in to the Dark Matter Airwaves

Single-Particle Cryo-Electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM) Image Processing Workshop