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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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Reinventing Batteries

Batteries are needed everywhere, for consumer electronics, electric vehicles, and large-scale energy storage on the electrical grid. All of these applications are limited by...
Date Tuesday, March 29, 2016
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
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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
Feature
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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VIA Symmetry Magazine

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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New Catalyst is Three Times Better at Splitting Water

Their results suggest a more efficient way to store energy from solar and wind power by converting it into renewable fuels.

March 24, 2016  ·  5 min read
A water-splitting device at the University of Toronto
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X-rays Reveal How a Solar Cell Gets its Silver Stripes

Scientists have used X-rays to observe exactly how silver electrical contacts form during manufacturing of solar modules.

April 1, 2016  ·  4 min read
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

The Milky Way’s Hot Spot

The center of our galaxy is a busy place. But it might be one of the best sites to hunt for dark matter.

March 29, 2016
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VIA Stanford News

Partners in Discovery

Working together, researchers at SLAC and Stanford expand our knowledge of materials, molecules and the universe.

March 31, 2016
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Major Upgrade Will Boost Power of World’s Brightest X-ray Laser

Upgrade will sharpen our view of nature’s atomic processes at work, aiding the development of a number of transformative technologies.

April 4, 2016  ·  6 min read
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