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News Feature ·

Sharpening our cosmic focus

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is gearing up to illuminate the Universe’s darkest secrets with groundbreaking new technology.

Cosmic Focus

Following a boom in catalysis users at SSRL, Beam Line 10-2 has been transformed and outfitted with new technologies. 

Beam Line 10-2 hutch

SLAC, Stanford researchers estimate that reducing harmful chemical emissions could cut cancer risks from smoke exposure by over 50%.

A forestry worker performing a prescribed burn
News Brief · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Explain it in 60 seconds: big data

How do you solve a problem like big data?

Illustration for big data story

The $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics went to the ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and LHCb collaborations representing 13,508 researchers.

Photo of the massive mural of the ATLAS detector at CERN Point 1 painted by artist Josef Kristofoletti.

Now that NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera has been installed, what’s next?

A large black cylindrical camera is positioned in a telescope dome.

The Hubbard Model was unable to predict electron dynamics in a simplified, one-dimensional cuprate system, hinting at an additional attractive force. 

Illustration of ultrastrong attraction between electrons in neighboring atoms within a 1D cuprate chain
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

A new side to dark energy steps into the light

The long and continuing quest to understand dark energy has entered exciting new territory.

An illustration of a telescope with verdant trees on one side and a person raking leaves on the other.

Researchers found a protein that's essential for an enterovirus to enter human cells. That could help the search for vaccines and treatments. 

A cryo-EM image with blue blobs surrounded by purple lines representing cell nuclei and cell membranes, respectively.
News Brief · VIA Stanford

Alberto Salleo is named a AAAS Fellow

SLAC's   deputy director for science and technology joins three others Stanford faculty as new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Alberto Salleo

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