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Inside the search for dark matter

12/17/24

Ali Sundermier

About 30 years ago an "ideas guy" and a team builder joined forces to search for the invisible bulk of existence.

Video still showing theorist Lance Dixon writing on a large chalkboard

06/06/18

We're going to need a bigger blackboard

Watch SLAC theorist Lance Dixon write out a new formula that will contribute to a better understanding of certain particle collisions.

Collage of Stephen Hawking including: Oxford university, eye tracker, gravitational waves, equations, and a disability symbol

05/29/18

Approaching disability like a scientist

People with disabilities are underrepresented in STEM.

Illustration of polaroids with neutrino who is running out of the center photo (dark and light teal, chartreuse, white)

05/24/18

Game-changing neutrino experiments

This neutrino-watchers season preview will give you the rundown on what to expect to come out of neutrino research in the coming years.

Photo of the storytellers of Story Collider gather on stage

05/22/18

The personal side of science

The Story Collider visits Fermilab to highlight true stories from scientists.

Illustration for engineering of Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (red, pink, blue, green, burgandy, navy, grey)

05/17/18

Five (more) fascinating facts about DUNE

A lot of cleverness goes into engineering the incredible, dependable, shrinkable Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

05/15/18

Inside the Large Hadron Collider

If two protons collide at 99.9999991 percent the speed of light, do they make a sound?

Photo of many CUWiP programs include a poster session where students have the opportunity to describe research

05/08/18

Leveling the playing field

Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics aims to encourage more women and gender minorities to pursue careers in physics and improve diversity in the field.

Illustration of Jean Deken holding abstract "strings" of timelines, file boxes, stacks of paper(pink, white, tan, blue, magenta)

05/01/18

Q&A: SLAC’s archivist closes a chapter

Approaching retirement, Jean Deken describes what it’s like to preserve decades of collective scientific memory at a national lab.

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