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July 7, 2021
Peter Graham is interested in discovering the fundamental laws of nature that lie beyond the known standard model. He received an A.B./A.M. from…
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February 8, 2021
In Jorge Luis Borges’s story “The Book of Sand,” a mysterious Bible peddler knocks on the narrator’s door and offers to sell him a sacred book he…
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April 23, 2020
Eva Silverstein is one of fifteen Stanford faculty members among 276 new members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which honors…
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February 12, 2020
Vedika Khemani and Douglas Stanford have been named 2020 Sloan Research Fellows.
The fellowships honor early-career scholars whose “creativity…
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November 19, 2019
Like cosmic hard drives, black holes pack troves of data into compact spaces.
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October 10, 2019
Douglas Stanford and Pedro Vieira are two of the most brilliant young theoretical physicists who are seeking to understand nature at
Dawn Harmer/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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October 2, 2019
“I like it if I can run uphill and be rewarded with a view of the bay,” says Monika Schleier-Smith.
Image credit: L.A. Cicero
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September 27, 2019
The history of particle accelerators is one of seemingly constant one-upmanship.
Credit: Harrison Truong
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September 26, 2019
A team of Stanford University researchers are on a mission to identify dark matter once and for all.
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September 23, 2019
'Black holes have become one of the liveliest areas of theoretical research.
X. Qi; adapted by APS/Alan Stonebraker
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September 16, 2019
Viewpoint: Surfing on a Wave of Quantum Chaos
Written by Professor Xiaoliang Qi. Article appears in Physic
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August 7, 2019
Daniel Freedman, a visiting professor at the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics (SITP), is a co-recipient of a Special Breakth