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The world’s biggest digital camera was built at SLAC, and shipped to the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in northern Chile last year. This...

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The research sheds light on how a key regulator of inflammation forms, which could help guide new therapeutic approaches to inflammatory diseases.

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Modern particle accelerator control rooms are like busy air traffic control centers, where skilled operators juggle hundreds of interconnected and time-sensitive tasks to generate...

Poster art for January 2026 public lecture

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Electrons are tiny, charged particles with huge jobs: They hold all matter together, they drive the chemical reactions that power life, and they transport...

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Over the full 10-year survey, Rubin Observatory will produce half an exabyte of data. To make use of this data, teams of scientists and...

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Please join us for a workshop being hosted as part of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s X-ray and Ultrafast Strategic Initiative. The workshop is focused...

Mastering Materials Durability for Next-Generation Energy Technologies

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SLAC scientists played key roles in leadership, survey design, cosmological applications, studies of dark matter and of links to the cosmic microwave background.

News Brief

Researchers used X-ray lasers to control a modified cardiovascular drug with light and captured snapshots showing how it binds to proteins.

Photo of medications, pills and capsules

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An international team of researchers simulated magnetic forces in the early universe and found they could bridge the gap between the observed and calculated...

A simulation of the distribution of matter in the early universe

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Join us for science fun at STEM Community Day on October 25 at SLAC!

$A child looks at a light bulb while wearing glasses with diffraction lenses$

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This video breaks down how Rubin will run the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and build a 10-year time lapse of the...

Rubin Observatory with the night sky and Milky Way in the background

News Brief

The X-ray Pump Probe instrument is returning to normal operations this spring, anticipating a major capability boost when the high-energy beam comes online.

How we built the world's largest digital camera

SLAC scientists capture early stages of immune response inside cells

Humans Navigating Complexity with AI Helpers

Attoseconds, X-Ray Lasers, and Tracking Sub-Atomic Sheepdogs

How Rubin will map the universe

Mastering Materials Durability for Next-Generation Energy Technologies

DESI completes planned 3D map of the universe and continues exploring

Light-controlled beta blockers show promise for new and improved medicines

Primordial magnetic fields could resolve the Hubble tension and other cosmic mysteries

STEM Community Day 2025

How NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory maps the universe every night

Groundbreaking instrument back online, marking a key milestone in high-energy upgrade to SLAC’s X-ray laser