Dark matter is one of the most mysterious components of the universe. Yet it makes up 23 percent of the mass of the universe...
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Public Lecture
Galaxy Clusters and the Life and Death of the Universe
The distribution of galaxies in the universe is patchy. Galaxies are bound together in clusters made of stars, hot gas and invisible dark matter. ...
Past Event
Public Lecture
Caught on Camera: The Secret Lives of Life's Molecules
For decades, scientists have been working to understand the building blocks of life by studying the structures of proteins and other large biological molecules. ...
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Researchers will use FACET-II to develop the plasma wakefield acceleration method, in which researchers send a bunch of very energetic particles through a hot...
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FACET-II will pave the way for a future generation of particle colliders and powerful light sources
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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...
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This animation shows the results of a recent study at SLAC, in which researchers used a powerful beam of electrons to watch gold melt...
Animation
This movie shows the transition of a gold sample from a solid (dotted pattern) to a liquid (ring pattern) after...
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A study using a powerful beam of electrons at SLAC has revealed new atomic details of the melting of gold...
