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Building smaller, faster, more powerful accelerators for all
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Linac Coherent Light Source
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Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests
Cryogenic Electron Microscopy
Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Science
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology
Stanford PULSE Institute
Center for Interface Science & Catalysis
SLAC & Stanford build the world’s largest digital camera for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
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Thursday, March 27, 2025
Finding ways to handle torrents of data from LSST and LCLS-II will also advance “exascale” computing.
SLAC experimentalists and theorists collaborate to develop critical detector components, data analysis tools, and theoretical models for the HL-LHC upgrade, which will investigate the...
For the 9th year in a row, the CORE Science Institute brought underrepresented youth to the lab for a weeklong summer science program that...
James’ research on chronic and acute mercury exposure challenges conventional views
Supermassive black holes at the hearts of distant galaxies – and even our own sun – shine in the new movie.
SLAC is taking part in a multi-institutional effort to help reach net-zero carbon emissions goals in difficult-to-electrify industries.
The long – but not too long – cavity would ping-pong X-ray pulses inside of a particle accelerator facility to help capture nature’s fastest...
Data from the BABAR, Belle and LHCb experiments hint at phenomena beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.
The colony of honeybees that's lived in an old blue oak tree in front of Building 41 for nearly 50 years has been relocated...
Together with two long-time collaborators, he is recognized for work that helps us understand the strong nuclear force.
By tinkering and troubleshooting, Aalayah Spencer helps turn researchers’ ideas into state-of-the-art science experiments.
The ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed a process 4,000 times rarer than the production of Higgs bosons.