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Revealing nature’s fastest processes with X-rays, lasers and electrons
Studying the particles and forces that knit the cosmos together
Building smaller, faster, more powerful accelerators for all
Understanding the machinery of life at its most basic level
Inventing new tools for science and society
Finding clean, sustainable solutions for the world’s energy challenges
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Linac Coherent Light Source
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests
Cryogenic Electron Microscopy
Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Science
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology
Stanford PULSE Institute
Center for Interface Science & Catalysis
SLAC & Stanford build the world’s largest digital camera for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
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This joint publication of SLAC and Fermilab is your view into the world of particle physics.
How do accelerators survive in some of the most earthquake-prone regions on Earth?
The OPERA experiment’s study of tau neutrino appearance has reached the level of “discovery.”
The end of the Cold War and the cancellation of the Superconducting Super Collider led to the creation of a life-saving medical device.
Noether's theorem is a thread woven into the fabric of the science.
A batch of newly discovered satellite dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way should help scientists better grasp the evolution of the universe while also...
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope creates maps of the gamma-ray sky.
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument will produce a 3-D space map using a ‘hive’ of robots.
When it comes to studying particles that zip through matter as though it weren’t even there, you use every method you can think of.
Dark energy is everywhere. It will determine the fate of our universe. And we still have no idea what it is.
Scientists are ready to handle the increased data of the current run of the Large Hadron Collider.
Pentaquarks are no longer just a theory.
What are WIMPs, and what makes them such popular dark matter candidates?