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      Revealing nature’s fastest processes with X-rays, lasers and electrons

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      Studying the particles and forces that knit the cosmos together

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      Building smaller, faster, more powerful accelerators for all

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      Understanding the machinery of life at its most basic level

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Recommendations for U.S. government investments in particle physics include SLAC research priorities

A new report outlines suggestions for federal investments needed for the next generation of transformative discoveries in particle physics and cosmology, including priority projects...

December 8, 2023  ·  3 min read
A web of dark matter, in which galaxies are forming.
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Scientists design program for the future of US particle physics research

The High Energy Physics Advisory Panel has approved the recommendations of the P5 Report.

December 8, 2023
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Fermi mission creates 14-year time-lapse of the gamma-ray sky

Supermassive black holes at the hearts of distant galaxies – and even our own sun – shine in the new movie. 

December 20, 2023  ·  3 min read
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Final supernova results from Dark Energy Survey offer unique insights into the expansion of the universe

The latest results put the strongest constraints on the expansion of the universe ever obtained with DES supernova data.

January 12, 2024  ·  8 min read
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Saket Bagde wins 2022 Spicer Young Investigator Award for deciphering how nature produces some antibiotics

Bagde is being recognized for his successful efforts to describe the structures and mechanisms of several biologically important enzymes.

September 21, 2022  ·  2 min read
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Finding art in astrophysics technology

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

November 22, 2022
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SLAC Recent History: Building the world's largest digital camera for a 10-year survey of the universe

SLAC Recent History (1990s-today NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera module) – Building the largest digital camera for a 10-year survey of the...

September 29, 2022  ·  00:06:59  runtime
Building the largest digital camera for a 10-year survey of the universe
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Science of life

Tiny microbes and molecular machines have an outsized impact on human health, and they play key roles in the vast global cycles that shape climate and make carbon and nitrogen available to all living things. SLAC biology advances our understanding...

Identifying each tiny chemical step in photosynthesis could aid the development of renewable energy technology.
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Physics of the universe

In its infancy, the universe was awash in fundamental particles. Over billions of years, matter cooled and clumped into stars and galaxies, tied together by a cosmic web of dark matter.

Dwarf Galaxy 3.
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Astrophysics & cosmology

To explore the birth of the universe, the formation of stars and galaxies and the fundamental structure of space and time, SLAC researchers develop cutting-edge technologies for sensitive experiments located deep underground, on the surface and in space.

This composite image shows the galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56, also known as the "bullet cluster."
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Elementary particle physics

Working at the forefront of particle physics, SLAC scientists use powerful particle accelerators to create and study nature’s fundamental building blocks and forces, build sensitive detectors to search for new particles and develop theories that explain and guide experiments.

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Cosmic Abundance

This image captures a small section of NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s view of the Virgo Cluster, offering a vivid glimpse of the variety...

June 18, 2025
A small section of NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s view of the Virgo Cluster, offering a vivid glimpse of the variety in the cosmos
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