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Scientists create artificial catalysts inspired by living enzymes

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Lee comes from MIT, where his team recently discovered a fundamentally new type of magnetic behavior in a mineral called herbertsmithite.

SLAC and Stanford Professor Young S. Lee
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Experiment at SLAC's X-ray Laser Opens Door to Exploring Cell Interiors

Image - These micrograph images show rod-shaped bacterial cells suspended in pure water. The dark rectangular shapes inside the cells correspond to naturally occurring crystals within the cells.
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Chris Pollock Adapted Technique to Study Biomolecules in More Detail

Image - Chris Pollock monitors an experiment at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource. (Courtesy of Chris Pollock)
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SLAC Experiment Reveals Mysterious Order in Liquid Helium

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Physicists have good reason to believe 85 percent of the matter in the universe is currently undetectable. But not being able to see it...

Photo - SSI speaker Tracy Slatyer of MIT
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In September, DES will make data collected in its first season freely available to researchers.

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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Open Access to the Universe

A team of scientists generated a giant cosmic simulation—and now they're giving it away.

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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Science on Demand

Brian Greene welcomes the Internet to physics class with World Science U.

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Laser-timing Tool Works at the Speed of Electrons

Image - An illustration of the setup used to test an "attosecond" timing tool at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser. The dashed line represents the arrival time of the X-ray laser.
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Last year, a monster magnet set out from Brookhaven National Lab on an epic trek by land and sea to Fermilab, where it will...

Photo – The Muon g-2 Detector Group
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LSST Will Capture Unprecedented View of Night Sky

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The Higgs boson could be the tool that leads scientists to the next big discovery.