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Lynbrook Wins Second Straight SLAC Regional Science Bowl

At SLAC's Regional DOE Science Bowl on Saturday, Lynbrook High School pulled off a repeat performance of their 2015 win.

February 10, 2016  ·  3 min read
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Stanford Scientists Celebrate Technological Advances that Finally Made Gravitational Wave Detection Possible

Contributions to LIGO have come from many Stanford teams, including SLAC, Applied Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautics and Astronautics and the School of Earth, Energy...

February 12, 2016
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Daya Bay Discovers a Mismatch

The latest measurements from the Daya Bay neutrino experiment in China don’t align with predictions from nuclear theory.

February 12, 2016
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Test of DUNE Tech Begins

On the road to the world’s largest neutrino detector, take the “DUNE Buggy.”

February 16, 2016
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New Satellite with Superior X-ray Vision Launched

It will provide new insights into the physics of black holes, the formation of chemical elements, stars and galaxies, and the evolution of the...

February 19, 2016  ·  5 min read
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

The ABCs of Particle Physics

Take an interactive animated journey through the particle physics alphabet.

February 23, 2016
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SLAC Summer Institute Featured Collaborative Mini-projects

For the 41st annual Particle Physics & Astrophysics Department’s SLAC Summer Institute (SSI), organizers introduced a successful new feature.

July 31, 2013  ·  3 min read
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5 Ways SLAC’s X-ray Laser Can Change the Way We Live

Toward next-generation electronics, better medications and green energy solutions: "The First Five Years" point to a bright future of high-impact discovery at LCLS.

March 9, 2016  ·  5 min read
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X-ray Studies at SLAC and Berkeley Lab Aid Search for Ebola Cure

Scientists have determined in atomic detail how a potential drug molecule fits into and blocks a channel in cell membranes that Ebola and related...

March 14, 2016  ·  3 min read
Alex Kintzer and Robert Stroud at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Light Source.
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Dusting for the Fingerprint of Inflation with BICEP3

A new experiment at the South Pole picks up where BICEP2 left off.

March 16, 2016
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Bump Watch 2016

A bump in the LHC data has physicists electrified…but what does it mean?

March 18, 2016
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Why Are Particle Accelerators so Large?

CERN physicist Edda Gschwendtner explains why we need big machines to study tiny particles.

March 22, 2016
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