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VIA Stanford

New nontoxic powder uses sunlight to quickly disinfect contaminated drinking water

A low-cost, recyclable powder can kill thousands of waterborne bacteria per second when exposed to sunlight. Stanford and SLAC scientists say the ultrafast disinfectant...

May 18, 2023
Four cups of water arranged in a cycle, illustrating a decontamination cycle.
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Kelly Stifter and Julia Gonski awarded 2023 Panofsky Fellowships at SLAC

They’ll work on experiments searching for dark matter and physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics to push our understanding of what makes...

May 26, 2023  ·  5 min read
Kelly Stifter and Julia Gonski.
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DESI early data release holds nearly two million objects

The first batch of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is now available for researchers to mine. Taken during the experiment’s “survey validation”...

June 13, 2023  ·  5 min read
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Past Event
KIPAC public lecture

Dark Matter Searches with Astrophysical Objects

In this lecture, Dr. Rebecca Leane will review a range of dark matter searches using celestial objects, including exoplanets, solar-system planets, the Sun, and...

Date Tuesday, July 18, 2023
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
A galaxy in space
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Special Events

Mysteries of the Universe & Time Machines

This week 200 members of the Cosmic Microwave Background Stage-4 (CMB-S4) collaboration are meeting at SLAC to focus on the continuing development of...
Date Tuesday, August 1, 2023
6:30 p.m.  –  7:30 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Trinity Room
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Applications of quantum mechanics at the beach

How does sunscreen work on the atomic level?

August 8, 2023
Illustration of a beach scene with a sunburned man
SLAC Experts

Wah Chiu

Professor at SLAC and Stanford Director of CryoEM and Bioimaging Division at SLAC

Areas of research: Science of life; cryo-EM; bioimaging; RNA structure; cryo-ET of neuronal cells; atomic-resolution cryo-EM; pandemic-related structures

Photo of Professor Wah Chui with a cryo-electron micrcoscope
SLAC Experts

Risa Wechsler

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

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

Risa Wechsler
SLAC experts

Caterina Vernieri

Assistant Professor of particle physics and astrophysics

Areas of research: Physics of the universe; particle physics; LHC physics with the ATLAS Experiment; Higgs boson; advanced accelerator R&D; future electron-positron collider R&D...

Caterina Vernieri headshot
Past Event
KIPAC public lecture

The next decade of discovery with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Date Wednesday, September 13, 2023
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Milky Way above Rubin Observatory
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Imagining the future of gravitational-wave research

To understand why scientists are excited about detecting a new background, just look to the history of studies of the CMB.

September 12, 2023
Illustration of galaxies in a Petri dish
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Via Symmetry Magazine

Searching for the matter that hides its shine

Just because matter is visible doesn’t mean it’s easy to see.

May 16, 2023
Illustration of Earth and galaxies with icons representing telescopes.