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SLAC fundamental physics researchers study everything from elementary particles produced in accelerators to the large-scale structure of the universe. 

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Physics Love Poems

Advance your romance with science.

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Construction has officially launched for the LZ next-generation dark matter experiment.

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Physics Love Poem Challenge

Think you can do better than the Symmetry staff? Send us your poems!

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Public lecture presented by Eli Rykoff

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Neutron stars have earned their share of superlatives since their discovery in 1967.

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The Value of Basic Research

How can we measure the worth of scientific knowledge? Economic analysts give it a shot.

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Most experiments searching for mysterious dark matter require massive colliders, but Stanford physicist and SLAC collaborator Peter Graham advocates a different, less costly approach.

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Using Twinkles, the new simulation of images of our night sky, scientists get ready for a gigantic cosmological survey unlike any before.

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How Heavy is a Neutrino?

The question is more complicated than it seems.

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2016 year in particle physics

Scientists furthered studies of the Higgs boson, neutrinos, dark matter, dark energy and cosmic inflation and continued the search for undiscovere

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Science with Sprinkles

Holiday guests will gravitate toward these physics cookies.

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SLAC launched America’s first website on Dec. 12, 1991.