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Artificial intelligence analyzes gravitational lenses 10 million times faster

SLAC and Stanford researchers demonstrate that brain-mimicking ‘neural networks’ can revolutionize the way astrophysicists analyze their most complex data, including extreme distortions in spacetime...

August 30, 2017  ·  5 min read
Neural Nets and Gravitational Lenses
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

What Can Particles Tell Us About the Cosmos?

The minuscule and the immense can reveal quite a bit about each other.

September 5, 2017
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Students Discuss ‘Cosmic Opportunities’ at 45th Annual SLAC Summer Institute

The summer school explored upcoming opportunities to expand our understanding of the universe and its fundamental physics, from mysterious dark matter to recently detected...

September 6, 2017  ·  3 min read
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Hewlett Packard’s Suhas Kumar Wins 2017 Klein Award

Kumar’s work, carried out in part at SSRL, explains how memristors work – a new class of electronic devices with applications in next-generation information...

September 11, 2017  ·  4 min read
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SLAC-Led Project Will Use Artificial Intelligence to Prevent or Minimize Electric Grid Failures

It's the first to employ AI to help the grid manage power fluctuations, resist damage and recover faster from storms, solar eclipses, cyberattacks and...

September 14, 2017  ·  4 min read
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

1,000 Meters Below

Meet the world’s deepest underground physics facilities.

May 31, 2016
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Prototype of LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector Tested at SLAC

A small-scale version of the future detector allows researchers and engineers to test, develop and troubleshoot various aspects of its technology.

June 1, 2016  ·  3 min read
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A Plasma Tube to Bring Particles up to Speed at SLAC

Researchers have reached another milestone in the development of a promising technology that could lead to more efficient and powerful particle accelerators.

June 2, 2016  ·  4 min read
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Echo Technique Developed at SLAC Could Make X-ray Lasers More Stable

Manipulating electron beams of X-ray lasers with regular laser light could potentially open up new scientific avenues.

June 6, 2016  ·  5 min read
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

What Is a “Particle”?

Quantum physics says everything is made of particles, but what does that actually mean?

June 2, 2016
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Scientists Use a Frozen Gas to Boost Laser Light to New Extremes

A SLAC/Stanford study opens a new path to producing laser pulses that are just billionths of a billionth of a second long by inducing...

June 6, 2016  ·  4 min read
Stanford graduate student Georges Ndabashimiye in the PULSE Institute laser lab
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X-ray Experiments Show Hewlett Packard Team How Memristors Work

The results are an important step in designing these solid-state devices for computer memories that would operate much faster, last longer and use less...

June 13, 2016  ·  4 min read
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