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(Photo courtesy of Carl Wieman)

Q&A: Yidan Prize winner Carl Wieman talks disparities in STEM, education accessibility

Kirsten Mettler
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Oct. 20, 2020
Humor
“To be fair, I get it now. Like, I really get it,” Henry Unger, one of Provost Drell’s victims, admitted. (Photo: Lana Tleimat/The Stanford Daily)

Persis Drell drops PHYSICS 41E students from Hoover Tower to demonstrate gravity

Lana Tleimat
  •  
Feb. 4, 2020
Courtesy of Gerd Altmann

Stanford team’s new particle accelerator fits on a silicon chip

Andrew Tan
  •  
Jan. 9, 2020
Columnists
Columnist Vamsi Varanasi considers intellectual curiosity after observing bubbles in a cup on a flight. (Public Domain Pictures)

Bubbling questions

Vamsi Varanasi
  •  
Oct. 9, 2019
Research
Li Ka Shing building.

Cardinal Catalog: The Sept. 22 – Sept. 28 research roundup

Andrew Tan and Paxton Scott
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Sept. 30, 2019
Arts & Life
Five chandelier-like models hang in Josiah McElheny’s "Island Universe" exhibition, which combines art and science to explain five potential ways that the universe is expanding. (BRIAN LEE/The Stanford Daily)

‘Island Universe’ at Cantor models theories of our existence

Brian Lee
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July 21, 2019
News
Recent earthquakes at Ridgecrest, California have left people miles away feeling vulnerable. (Photo: Flickr)

Recent earthquakes could mark end of California ‘earthquake drought,’ professors say

Mariam Guirgis
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July 15, 2019
News
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Six Stanford seniors selected as 2019 Deans’ Award winners

Tejas Athni
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March 8, 2019
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Don’t put astronauts on cereal boxes

From the Community
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Feb. 4, 2019
Provost Persis Drell continues to play her cello in a chamber music group (courtesy of Persis Drell).

Faculty members and fervent musicians

Olivia Mitchel
  •  
Jan. 15, 2019
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SLAC researchers build dark matter detector

Jessica Jen
  •  
July 24, 2018
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Stanford alum advocates for solar energy in seminar on new book

Holden Foreman
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April 3, 2018
(Courtesy of Dawn Harmer/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Secretary of Energy Rick Perry praises SLAC researchers, talks energy obstacles

Yasmin Samrai
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March 28, 2018
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Speculative Fiction: How do magic systems work?

Shana E. Hadi
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March 18, 2018
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Duncan Wood tries to find himself with his debut EP, ‘where am i’

Jacob Nierenberg
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Jan. 16, 2018
Steven Chu (Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy).

Professor Steven Chu chosen as AAAS president-elect

Holden Foreman
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Jan. 12, 2018
Artist’s rendition of two supermassive black holes, resembling those observed by UNM/Stanford researchers, orbiting one another (Joshua Valenzuela/UNM).

Orbiting black hole discovery reveals how the universe may have formed

Pratyusha Macherla
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Aug. 3, 2017
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Stanford scientist defends inflationary origin theory of the universe

Sarah Wishingrad
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May 11, 2017
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Professor emeritus of theoretical physics Sidney Drell dies at 90

Emma Fiander
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Dec. 23, 2016
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Physicists propose new system for detecting neutrinos

Aulden Foltz
  •  
Dec. 1, 2016
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