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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...

China’s 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST). A Stanford-led international collaboration discovered an extremely faint millisecond pulsar

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May 18, 2018

Physics Ph.D Candidate Kelly Stifter will receive the Community Impact Award, presented by the Stanford Alumni Association, along with 33 other…

The future SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment will hunt for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), hypothetical components of dark matter. If a WIMP (white...

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Congratulations to Renata Kallosh on her election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  Renata's election recognizes her important…
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March 28, 2018