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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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June 3, 2024
Dean Debra Satz honored seven faculty members with a 2023-24 H&S Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. Recipients include:
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June 3, 2024
Lecture Date: Thursday 31 October 2024Time: 15.15Oskar Klein Lecture: Renata Kallosh
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May 23, 2024
Press Release of the International Award Committee of the Isaac Pomeranchuk Prize 
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May 2, 2024
Researchers at Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory demonstrate the generation of continuous-variable graph states of…

Adam Shaw, Caltech

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April 25, 2024
Adam Shaw studies quantum computing at the scale of atoms.
April 12, 2024
Nothing escapes a black hole … or does it?

An artist's rendering of the LSST Camera showing its major components including lenses, sensor array, and utility trunk. (Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator...

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April 3, 2024
Risa Wechsler, a cosmologist who directs the Kavli Institute for Particle…

Peter Sturrock, in a 1930 school photograph from "The Life and Times of a Dissident Scientist".

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March 21, 2024
Peter Andrew Sturrock was born 20 March 1924.

Josephine Wong, a graduate research assistant at Stanford University, continues to refine an analysis technique she developed to process IXPE data so that it...

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March 7, 2024
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