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VIA Stanford News

Stanford's GCEP Awards $10.5 Million for Research on Renewable Energy

SLAC scientists are among the researchers to receive funding to advance solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy.

October 9, 2014
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SLAC's Bart Johnson Receives 2014 Farrel W. Lytle Award

Annual Award Recognizes Behind-the-scenes Work in Assisting X-ray Experiments

October 13, 2014  ·  2 min read
Image - Bart Johnson of SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource is congratulated by X-ray science luminary Farrel W. Lytle after receiving an annual award. (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
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Puzzling New Behavior Found in High-Temperature Superconductors

Ultimate Goal: A Super-efficient Way to Conduct Electricity at Room Temperature

October 20, 2014  ·  5 min read
SLAC Staff Scientist Wei-sheng Lee
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New Directors, New Science Share Spotlight at Annual Meeting and Workshops

Four-day Event Includes Presentations by Nobel Prize Winners, Other Science Luminaries

October 15, 2014  ·  3 min read
Image - SLAC Director Chi-Chang Kao discusses the lab's strategic plan during the LCLS/SSRL Annual Users' Meeting and Workshops. (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
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SLAC Steps Up to the Plate at Bay Area Science Festival

Science Wonderland at AT&T Park Features Two SLAC Exhibits

October 21, 2014  ·  2 min read
Image - “Discovery Days” at AT&T Park transforms the home of the San Francisco Giants into a science wonderland. SLAC will have two booths this year. (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Cosmic Inflation

Cosmic inflation refers to a period of rapid, accelerated expansion that scientists think took place about 14 billion years ago.

October 24, 2014
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SLAC’s Earliest Websites Reappear in ‘Stanford Wayback’

Stanford University Web Archive Features Oldest North American Web Content

October 29, 2014  ·  3 min read
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Photos: SLAC at Bay Area Science Festival Discovery Days 2014

Just three days after the San Francisco Giants won the 2014 World Series, SLAC helped transform their home stadium, AT&T Park, into a science...

November 3, 2014
photo - SLAC at A&T Park
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Researchers Hit Milestone in Accelerating Particles with Plasma

Scientists have demonstrated that a promising technique for accelerating electrons on waves of hot plasma is efficient enough to power a new generation of...

November 5, 2014  ·  4 min read
SLAC researchers Spencer Gessner and Sebastien Corde
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Researchers Take Snapshots of Potential 'Kill Switch' for Cancer

Scientists at Genentech and SLAC have watched a key human protein change from a form that protects cells to one that kills them, providing...

November 10, 2014  ·  4 min read
The structure of cellular inhibitor-of-apoptosis protein 1
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Planck reveals galactic fingerprint

The Planck mission released a first glimpse of data that, later this year, will test BICEP2’s discovery of gravitational waves.

May 12, 2014
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Building artificial body parts with particle beams

Companies are using an electron-beam 3-D printing process to manufacture medical implants.

May 13, 2014
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