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VIA Symmetry Magazine

The Rise of LIGO’s Space-Studying Super-Team

The era of multi-messenger astronomy promises rich rewards—and a steep learning curve.

June 27, 2017
News Release

Scientists Get First Direct Look at How Electrons ‘Dance’ with Vibrating Atoms

Extraordinarily precise measurements -- within millionths of a billionth of a second and a billionth of a hair's breadth -- show this ‘electron-phonon coupling’...

July 6, 2017  ·  6 min read
Illustration of a laser beam triggering atomic vibrations in iron selenide
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

What’s Really Happening During an LHC Collision?

It’s less of a collision and more of a symphony.

June 30, 2017
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Via Brookhaven Lab

Scientists Complete the First “Science Raft” for the LSST

The raft is part of the sensor array that will make up the crucial camera segment of the telescope.

July 3, 2017
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Stanford University Awarded New Contract to Manage and Operate SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

July 10, 2017
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Scientists See Molecules ‘Breathe’ in Remarkable Detail

The research team was able to watch energy from light flow through atomic ripples in a molecule. Such insights may provide new ways to...

July 11, 2017  ·  3 min read
View of the The X-ray Pump Probe instrument at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source.
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Scientists Discover How Dense, Extraterrestrial Ice can Form in Just Billionths of a Second

A flash of green laser followed by pulses of X-rays, and mere nanoseconds later an extraterrestrial form of ice has formed.

July 12, 2017
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

SLAC Accelerator Plans Appear in Smithsonian Art Exhibit

The late artist June Schwarcz found inspiration in some unusual wrapping paper her husband brought home from the lab.

July 13, 2017
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Experiment Finds Evidence for a Particle That’s Its Own Antiparticle

A team including SIMES principal investigator Shoucheng Zhang says it has found the first firm evidence of such a Majorana fermion.

July 20, 2017
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Construction of Massive Neutrino Experiment Kicks Off a Mile Underground

A unique groundbreaking ceremony marked the start of construction of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility – future home of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, which...

July 24, 2017  ·  4 min read
DUNE Groundbreaking
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Atomic Movies May Help Explain Why Perovskite Solar Cells Are More Efficient

SLAC’s ultrafast “electron camera” reveals unusual atomic motions that could be crucial for the efficiency of next-generation perovskite solar cells.

July 26, 2017  ·  6 min read
UED Perovskites
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Scientists Watch ‘Artificial Atoms’ Assemble into Perfect Lattices with Many Uses

A serendipitous discovery lets researchers spy on this self-assembly process for the first time with SLAC’s X-ray synchrotron. What they learn will help them...

July 31, 2017  ·  5 min read
Illustration of nanocrystals forming into superlattices at SLAC's SSRL
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