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Franklin Fuller and Cornelius Gati Named 2017 Panofsky Fellows at SLAC

Over the next five years they’ll work on getting significantly more information about how catalysts work and improving biological imaging methods.

August 2, 2017  ·  6 min read
Cornelius Gati and Franklin Fuller, the 2017 Panofsky fellows at SLAC
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Standard model of the Universe withstands most precise test by Dark Energy Survey

SLAC and Stanford astrophysicists made crucial contributions to the galaxy survey, showing that the universe clumps and expands as predicted by our best cosmological...

August 3, 2017  ·  6 min read
Blanco Telescope
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

A New Search for Dark Matter 6,800 Feet Underground

Prototype tests of the future SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment are in full swing.

August 8, 2017
SuperCDMS
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Three SLAC Scientists Receive DOE Early Career Research Grants

Zeeshan Ahmed, Frederico Fiuza and Emilio Nanni will each receive about $2.5 million over five years to pursue cutting-edge research into cosmic inflation, plasma...

August 10, 2017  ·  8 min read
SLAC's 2017 DOE Early Career Award winners
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Video: Dark Matter Hunt with LUX-ZEPLIN

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are on a quest to solve one of physics’ biggest mysteries: What exa

August 14, 2017  ·  1 min read
LZ Dark Matter Detector
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Newly Upgraded Laser Allows Scientists to Peer Further Into the Extreme Universe at SLAC’s LCLS

Tripling the energy and refining the shape of optical laser pulses at LCLS’s Matter in Extreme Conditions instrument allows researchers to recreate higher-pressure conditions...

August 15, 2017  ·  5 min read
Laser engineers with the upgraded Matter in Extreme Conditions optical laser
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Researchers Create Molecular Movie of Virus Preparing to Infect Healthy Cells

With SLAC’s X-ray laser, scientists captured a virus changing shape and rearranging its genome to invade a cell.

August 17, 2017  ·  3 min read
The AMO (Atomic, Molecular & Optical Science) instrument
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Kathryn Hastie Wins Spicer Award for Lassa Virus Work at SLAC’s X-ray Synchrotron

The Scripps researcher is honored for groundbreaking research at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource that accelerated the development of a vaccine for deadly Lassa...

August 18, 2017  ·  5 min read
Photo - Kathryn Hastie, staff scientist at The Scripps Research Institute
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Scientists Create ‘Diamond Rain’ That Forms in the Interior of Icy Giant Planets

SLAC’s X-ray laser and Matter in Extreme Conditions instrument allow researchers to examine the exotic precipitation in real time as it materializes in the...

August 21, 2017  ·  6 min read
A cutaway depicts the interior of Neptune (right) and an illustration of diamond rain (left).
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Expanding the Search for Dark Matter

At a recent meeting, scientists shared ideas for searching for dark matter on the (relative) cheap.

August 22, 2017
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SLAC’s Blair Ratcliff Wins American Physical Society’s Instrumentation Award

The emeritus physicist was honored for the development of novel detectors that have greatly advanced experiments in particle physics, especially BABAR, which looked into...

August 25, 2017  ·  4 min read
Blair Ratcliff 2017 DPF Instrumentation Award
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New X-Ray Laser Technique Reveals Magnetic Skyrmion Fluctuations

A new “two-bucket” method of delivering pairs of X-ray pulses gives a 1,000-fold improvement in seeing magnetic fluctuations that could lead to improved data...

August 28, 2017  ·  5 min read
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