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SLAC Today During the first week of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, SLAC will be home to a mini-Antarctica. Scientists are using a ten-ton block of ice in End Station A to calibrate the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA), a radio antenna array that will fly over the South Pole on a NASA balloon to … Read more →

PBS NOVA Scientists estimate that many hundreds of billions of neutrinos will have harmlessly sped through your body by the time you finish reading this sentence. But despite their abundance, there’s only a 10 percent chance over the course of your entire lifetime that even one of these invisible particles will ever (again, harmlessly) interact … Read more →

Nobelprize.org Mankind has studied the universe for thousands of years by looking at the fascinating night sky, guided by the visible light emitted from myriads of stars and other phenomena. During the last century new pictures of the night sky have been discovered by scientists using different wavelengths of light which the naked eye cannot … Read more →