Among the many beautiful, unexpected and sometimes revolutionary discoveries to emerge from subatomic physics, probably none is more bizarre than an elementary particle known...
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Neutrinos Get Under Your Skin
The enigmatic neutrinos are among the most abundant of the tiny particles that make up our universe. They are a billion times more abundant...
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Robots: Fantasy and Reality
A irreverent non-technical review of the history of surprisingly animate machines, from ancient Egypt to current times. Areas include teleoperators for hazardous environments, assembly...
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ZAP! The X-Ray Laser is Born
SLAC has converted its giant particle accelerator into the world's first X-ray laser. By a billion fold the world's brightest X-ray source, the laser...
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As electronics become faster and more powerful and the components of integrated circuits shrink, scientists are bumping up against the limitations imposed by fundamental...
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The Large Hadron Collider: Redefining High Energy
Particle physicists have a description of the forces of nature known as the Standard Model that has successfully withstood decades of testing at laboratories...
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Printing Solar Cells for Greener Energy
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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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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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...
