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September 30, 2024
In the hills west of the campus, tucked in between the Stanford Golf Course Club and Center For Advanced Study In Behavioral Sciences, lies the…
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September 25, 2024
Karl Schwarzschild first stumbled upon black holes in 1916, but for a long time they weren’t really a thing.

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September 23, 2024
Kathryn Ann “Kam” Moler, the Marvin Chodorow Professor in the School of Humanities and…
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September 18, 2024
Peter Sturrock, distinguished physicist and emeritus professor at Stanford University, passed away peacefully in his home, surrounded by his friends…

W.L. Kimmy Wu, SLAC associate staff scientist and Panofsky Fellow

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September 16, 2024
David Cesar, Julia Gonski and W.L. Kimmy Wu will pursue research in X-ray and ultrafast science, new fundamental physics and…

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August 30, 2024
A summer STEM academic boot camp for veterans helps pave a path to higher education.August 27, 2024

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August 22, 2024
Monika Schleier-Smith, an associate professor in the…

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August 14, 2024
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Helen Quinn receives the 2024 Matteucci Medal from the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze in Rome. It was awarded by Professor Corrado De Concini, president of...

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July 12, 2024
Since 1868, only four women have been awarded the Matteucci Medal, an Italian award that recognizes physicists around the world.

Susan Clark has long been drawn to the interstellar medium, the gas and dust that magnetic fields sculpt into stars.

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July 1, 2024
Amid the roilings of the Milky Way, immense pockets of gas coalesce into clouds where stars are born. In this process, there is a hidden hand at play…

Jason Hogan (left) and Mark Kasevich work on an atom interferometer — a device that could reveal mergers of black holes much more massive than those seen by...

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June 27, 2024
Atom interferometry: closing the gapAlthough many of these projects push gravitational-wave science towards lower frequencies, they leave a crucial…
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June 26, 2024
Top prize for leadership in physics to be awarded to Stanford professor, Nobel laureate, and former Secretary of Energy for outstanding impact on our…
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