One of the greatest challenges humanity faces is finding a way to provide the world's population with clean energy. Since sunlight is our most...
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In this public lecture, longtime SLAC physicist Greg Loew will present a trip through SLAC's origins, highlighting its scientific achievements, and provide a glimpse...
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Public Lecture
Black holes and galaxies: A love-hate relationship
Black holes do not spend their lives alone in empty space. It is now known that at the center of almost every galaxy there...
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Public Lectures
Archaeopteryx: Bringing the Dino-Bird to Life
Some 150 million years ago, a strange creature died in a tropical lagoon that today is located in Bavaria, Germany. In 1861, a single...
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Deep Science: Mining for Dark Matter
Astronomers infer that the universe contains huge amounts of a mysterious, invisible substance called "dark matter". To account for the structure of galaxies and...
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Axions: Ghost Riders in the Sky
At a first glance, our galaxy appears to be made of stars separated by vast and empty space. However, we now know that this...
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Cosmic Dawn: The First Star in the Universe
What was the first thing in the Universe? A black hole or a star? How did it form? Even our biggest and best telescopes...
