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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Computing Power for All

The Open Science Grid enables faster, more efficient analysis of LHC data—and also contributes to advancements in fields from geology to medicine.

June 24, 2014
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Massive Neutrino Detector Moved into Place

The 30-ton MicroBooNE detector, the cornerstone of Fermilab’s short-baseline neutrino program, will see neutrinos this year.

June 24, 2014
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X-ray Laser Gives Buckyballs a Big Kick

Exploding Soccer Ball-shaped Molecules Will Help Biological Studies

June 27, 2014  ·  4 min read
Image - Buckyballs, molecules composed of 60 carbon atoms, bust apart as they are struck by intense X-ray pulses at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source. (Greg Stewart/SLAC)
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Getting the Jump on Big Data for LSST

Efforts are already underway to ensure that the data the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope  collects will be ready to be mined for scientific gold.

June 27, 2014
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Thomas F. Jaramillo Named Deputy Director of SUNCAT

Stanford researcher Thomas F. Jaramillo has been named SUNCAT’s new deputy director for experiments. He succeeds SLAC’s Anders Nilsson.

July 1, 2014  ·  3 min read
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Noted Dark Matter Experts Daniel Akerib and Thomas Shutt Join SLAC Faculty

Two dark matter hunters with decades of experience between them are turning SLAC into their base of operations for LZ, the next big dark...

July 1, 2014  ·  3 min read
Photo - Dark matter hunters Thomas Shutt (l) and Daniel Akerib.
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Learning the Ropes at SLAC’s Ultrafast X-ray Summer Seminar

Grad Students and Postdocs Get a Crash Course in Using X-ray Lasers

July 3, 2014  ·  3 min read
Archana Raja, a graduate student at Columbia University, explains her group’s poster presentation at SLAC’s Ultrafast X-ray Summer Seminar.
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Physicist Shares Do-it-Yourself Expertise Online

SLAC scientist Michael Kelsey sees connections between the communities of physicists and do-it-yourselfers.

July 3, 2014
Michael Kelsey
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

What’s Next for Higgs Boson Research?

Two years after the groundbreaking discovery of the Higgs boson, physicists are still hard at work.

July 4, 2014
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Researchers Led by Stanford Engineer Figure Out How to Make More Efficient Fuel Cells

Using high-brilliance X-rays, researchers track the process that fuel cells use to produce electricity, knowledge that will help make large-scale

July 9, 2014
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Uncertainty Gives Scientists New Confidence in Search for Novel Materials

SLAC, Stanford Advance Will Benefit Thousands of Computational Studies in Wide Range of Fields

July 10, 2014  ·  3 min read
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US Reveals Its Next Generation of Dark Matter Experiments

Together, three experiments, two with major SLAC contributions, will search for a variety of types of dark matter particles.

July 11, 2014
This composite image shows the galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56, also known as the "bullet cluster."
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