New Technique Leads to the Discovery of 5 New Pulsars
By combining observations from the Large Area Telescope and the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia, scientists have found a new technique for hunting pulsars. The…
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By combining observations from the Large Area Telescope and the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia, scientists have found a new technique for hunting pulsars. The…
While using a technique to simultaneously blast and probe samples of graphite, scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory saw ultrafast changes from solid to liquid…
While using an instrument to measure the detailed superconducting gap structure of the ferropnictide superconductor BaFe2(As0.7P0.3)2, physicists discovered experimental evidence that iron-based superconductors fall into…
Using SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source, a team of physicists discovered never-before-seen behavior by electrons in a material called striped nickelate, representing a new era…
New silicon battery technology is a major step forward in creating smaller, lighter and longer-lasting batteries. The new design contains a double-walled silicon nanotube coated…
If you think your new 14 megapixel camera is powerful, take a look at the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. Designed by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory,…
Roughly four years after the Fermi began studying gamma-rays, a soon to be published study documents interesting findings. It turns out that the Crab Nebula…
New research at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) has shown a promising new way to collect data on membrane proteins in the human body….
The first ever electrons with tunable properties were observed at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. By repositioning the carbon monoxide molecules that were placed on…
Topological insulators, such as sheets of bismuth selenide, are ultra-thin sheets of material that are transparent, flexible and highly conductive. Scientists at the SLAC National…
A new study could enable scientists to synthesize many important chemicals currently found only in nature. The research shows how scientists used powerful X-rays to…
Researchers at SLAC’s Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science and the Stanford Materials Science and Engineering Department discovered what is going on when ferroelectric…
A recent study by researchers at the Kavli Institute for Particle Physics and Cosmology (KIPAC) suggests that for every typical star in our galaxy, there…
Researchers are working on new technology that could dramatically reduce the time needed for cancer radiation treatments. By using high-energy electrons for radiation therapy, the…
Physicists working on the Echo-7 experiment at SLAC’s Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator (NLCTA) reached a new milestone while taking steps towards creating a fully…
Scientists working at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s Linear Coherent Light Source (LCLS) discovered a way to distort the atomic arrangement and change the magnetic…
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the world’s first “atomic X-ray laser.” By aiming SLAC’s Linac Coherent…
Experiments carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory allowed scientist to control a 2-million-degree piece of matter. Researchers used…