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Risa Wechsler, associate professor of physics and of particle physics and astrophysics at SLAC and Stanford, has been named third director of the Kavli...

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July 31, 2018

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July 19, 2018

An early prototype of the silicon-chip-sized particle accelerator that physicists at Stanford are working on. Eventually, miniature accelerators might have a...

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Steven Chu at the 68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, in Lindau, Germany.

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 A Stanford team has developed an artificial intelligence program that recreated the period table of elements; they aim to harness that tool to discover and...

Stanford physicist Roger Blandford’s work in fluid dynamics informed his study of the flow of air around a baseball after it leaves the bat. (Image credit...

Alphabet's X division this week took the wraps off its latest moonshot project — a novel system that stores renewable energy using huge vats of boiling, molten...