First New Biological Structure Solved With a Free-Electron Laser
Scientists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are using X-ray lasers to determine the structures of biological molecules that are important for human health, solving…
Scientists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are using X-ray lasers to determine the structures of biological molecules that are important for human health, solving…
A newly published study describes how astrophysicists used simulations, which follow both the rules of general relativity and the laws of magnetism, to demonstrate that…
Results from a newly published study may help scientists deliberately induce the high levels of damage needed to study extreme states of matter. Researchers using…
Using X-ray emission spectroscopy, a team of researchers reveal chemical information about molecules before they are destroyed. Research at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory demonstrates that…
A team of scientists designed proteins from scratch to have a high affinity and high specificity for targets on flu viruses, validating the two best…
A newly published study details how scientists used femtosecond X-ray pulses from a free-electron laser to capture nanoscale, light-induced changes in a material made of…
As research into ways to accelerate electrons with “X-band” microwaves rather than the S-band waves continues at SLAC, physicists have started commissioning the world’s most…
Located on a mountaintop in Chile, the newly-constructed Dark Energy Camera is the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created and has captured and recorded its…
Scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory incorporated ultra-thin bendable crystals into a high-resolution spectrometry system for monitoring the characteristics of X-ray pulses. A frustrating flaw…
Working as a team, scientists from SIMES and the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis studied two platinum-rhodium nanostructures, identifying the most active sites…
By using a thin sliver of diamond to filter a laser beam to a single X-ray color, scientists have transformed the Linac Coherent Light Source…
By targeting super-thin aluminum with X-rays at LCLS, scientists were able to analyze and pinpoint how much energy it takes to knock electrons from highly…
Using a pump-probe technique, scientists at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source used terahertz frequencies of light to change the magnetic state of a sample and…
Using a modified version of Cytochrome P450 17A1, scientists from the University of Kansas have solved the structure of CYP17A1 for the first time, which…
In an effort to improve the cycle life of lithium-sulfur batteries and to find new ways to develop commercially viable lithium-sulfur batteries for electric vehicles,…
With yesterday’s announcement of the likely discovery of the Higgs boson, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory takes a moment to reflect on how we got to…
After exciting small, light-sensitive hydrocarbon molecules with light from an ultraviolet laser, Scientists at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source then made quadrillionths-of-a-second snapshots of the…
While working with SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source, a team of scientists showed that LCLS can drive a paradigm shift in imaging airborne particles, allowing…