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From our kitchens to our clothes to the delivery of medicines, plastics play an indispensable role in our daily lives. But, the end-life of...

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Rubin’s largest asteroid haul yet, gathered before the Legacy Survey of Space and Time even begins, is just the “tip of the iceberg.”

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The world’s biggest digital camera was built at SLAC, and shipped to the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in northern Chile last year. This...

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Modern particle accelerator control rooms are like busy air traffic control centers, where skilled operators juggle hundreds of interconnected and time-sensitive tasks to generate...

Poster art for January 2026 public lecture

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SLAC scientists played key roles in leadership, survey design, cosmological applications, studies of dark matter and of links to the cosmic microwave background.

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This video breaks down how Rubin will run the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and build a 10-year time lapse of the...

Rubin Observatory with the night sky and Milky Way in the background

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An international team of researchers simulated magnetic forces in the early universe and found they could bridge the gap between the observed and calculated...

Reinventing the way we break down plastic waste

Early data from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals over 11,000 new asteroids

How we built the world's largest digital camera

Humans Navigating Complexity with AI Helpers

DESI completes planned 3D map of the universe and continues exploring

How NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory maps the universe every night

Primordial magnetic fields could resolve the Hubble tension and other cosmic mysteries