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NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory launches real-time discovery machine for monitoring the night sky

NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory has issued its first scientific alerts, marking a historic milestone in astrophysics and kicking off a new era of dynamic, real-time...

February 25, 2026  ·  10 min read
Star-filled teal night sky with turquoise glowing band, scattered “DATA ALERT” tags, and a white icon of the Rubin Observatory atop dark mountains.
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SuperCDMS SNOLAB cools down to near absolute zero, setting the stage for one of the world’s most sensitive dark matter searches

The experiment’s detectors have reached their operating temperature, almost a thousand times colder than outer space.

March 17, 2026  ·  6 min read
SuperCDMS team members posing with a detector tower.
News Brief

To create better batteries, SLAC researchers introduce disorder into the design

By instigating atomic disorder in lithium-ion battery materials, researchers created more stable materials that don’t expand, contract and degrade like traditional materials do.

March 23, 2026  ·  5 min read
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News Brief

SLAC welcomes hundreds of students for Regional Science Bowl

The winning teams from Lynbrook High School and Joaquin Miller Middle School will continue on to nationals.

March 19, 2026  ·  3 min read
eight middle school students sit behind a long table at the front of an auditorium with buzzers in front of them as they compete in a science knowledge competition
News Brief
Argonne National Lab

New chip technology enables real-time insights from scientific data

Argonne, SLAC researchers designed a chip that compresses and processes detector data instantly, letting scientists analyze results and steer experiments as they happen.

March 24, 2026
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News Release

Sensors of world’s largest digital camera snap first 3,200-megapixel images at SLAC

The camera will explore cosmic mysteries as part of the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

September 8, 2020  ·  9 min read
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AI rebuilds molecules from exploding fragments

SLAC researchers and collaborators trained a neural network that can use ion momentum to work backward and predict the pre-blast geometry of a molecule.

March 18, 2026  ·  6 min read
Illustration of AI used for the reconstruction of the structure of molecules blown up by X-ray pulses
News Brief

New detector triples the speed of SLAC’s electron camera, enabling higher sensitivity

Researchers reengineered an ePix10k detector for use in ultrafast electron diffraction, empowering studies of chemical processes that were previously out of reach. 

April 3, 2026  ·  4 min read
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SLAC on Tap

Atoms in slow motion, the skyrmion, and crackling magnets: the hidden world of quantum materials

What do the sound of Rice Krispies and the motion of atoms and magnets have in common? Join us at the Dutch Goose for...
Date Tuesday, April 14, 2026
5:30 p.m.  –  7:00 p.m.  PT
Location The Dutch Goose, 3567 Alameda de las Pulgas Menlo Park, CA 94025
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Reinventing the way we break down plastic waste

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...
Date Thursday, March 26, 2026
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
Public Lecture: Ozge Bozkurt
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Driving Critical Chemical Transformations with Photons, Electrons, and Catalysts

SLAC is hosting a workshop Driving critical chemical transformations with photons, electrons, and catalysts. The workshop will identify key approaches and opportunities to...
Date Monday, June 16, 2025  –  Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Driving Critical Chemical Transformations with Photons, Electrons, and Catalysts
News Brief
VIA Rubin Observatory

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

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

April 2, 2026
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