Less than a millionth of a billionth of a second long, attosecond X-ray pulses allow…
Browsing: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy, is a premier research facility located in Menlo Park, California. Originally founded in 1962 to advance particle physics, SLAC is home to one of the longest linear accelerators in the world. Today, its research spans a wide range of fields, including astrophysics, materials science, chemistry, and energy research. SLAC is also a leader in X-ray science, housing the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world’s first hard X-ray free-electron laser, which allows scientists to observe atomic and molecular processes in real time. The lab’s work supports fundamental discoveries as well as practical innovations in technology and medicine.
A Day in the Life of Two Accelerator Experts Kathleen Ratcliffe and Tien Fak Tan…
Sandwiching wiggly proteins between two other layers allows scientists to get the most detailed images…
A laser compressing an aluminum crystal provides a clearer view of a material’s plastic deformation,…
A cellphone-sized device automatically adjusts a home’s power use up or down to save the…
Scientists have taken a significant step in understanding these whirling quasiparticles and putting them to…
“Fingerprinting” Minerals To Better Understand How They Are Affected by Meteorite Collisions Researchers mimicked these…
X-ray laser experiments show that intense light distorts the structure of a thermoelectric material in…
Scientists discover that triggering superconductivity with a flash of light involves the same fundamental physics…
The chemically controlled chains reveal an ultrastrong attraction between electrons that may help cuprate superconductors…
New observations of the atomic structure of iron reveal it undergoes “twinning” under extreme stress…
A new analysis of the South Pole-based telescope’s cosmic microwave background observations has all but…
Spawned by the spins of electrons in magnetic materials, these tiny whirlpools behave like independent…
The work sheds light on the web of hydrogen bonds that gives water its strange…
Scientists Take First Snapshots of Ultrafast Switching in a Quantum Electronic Device Researchers discover a…
Successful Start of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Follows Record-Setting Trial Run A five-year quest…
With a new suite of tools, scientists discovered exactly how tiny plate-like catalyst particles carry…
Known as “pair-density waves,” it may be key to understanding how superconductivity can exist at…