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Scientists create artificial catalysts inspired by living enzymes

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Researchers at SLAC have for the first time seen a spin current – an inherent magnetic property common to all electrons – as it...

Image - This illustration shows the flow of a magnetic property of electrons known as spin current from a magnetic material (blue), to a nonmagnetic material (red). (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
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The CMS and ATLAS experiments combined forces to more precisely measure properties of the Higgs boson.

ATLAS experiment image
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A major international effort at SLAC is focused on improving our views of intact viruses, living bacteria and other tiny samples using the brightest...

Researchers monitor the performance of a single particle imaging experiment
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In a first-of-its-kind experiment, scientists got a textbook-worthy result that may change the way matter is probed at X-ray free-electron lasers.

The Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser at SLAC
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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope’s ‘Eye’ Will be Built at SLAC.

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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Looking for Strings Inside Inflation

Theorists from the Institute for Advanced Study have proposed a way forward in the quest to test string theory.

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VIA Symmetry Magazine

All About Supernovae

Exploding stars have an immense capacity to destroy—and create.

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VIA Symmetry Magazine

The Age of the Universe

How can we figure out when the universe began?

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Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey, using one of the world’s most powerful digital cameras, have discovered eight more faint celestial objects hovering near...

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Scientists have revealed never-before-seen details of how our brain sends rapid-fire messages between its cells using SLAC's X-ray laser.

Image - This illustration shows a protein complex at work in brain signaling. Its structure, which contains joined protein complexes known as SNARE and synaptotagmin-1, is shown in the foreground. (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
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A SLAC/Stanford manufacturing technique could help make inexpensive polymer-based solar cells an attractive alternative to silicon-crystal wafers.

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SUNCAT and SIMES researchers have received funding from Stanford's Global Climate and Energy Project to support research related to generating renewable fuels.