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Pioneering New Tool Will Spur Advances in Catalysis

Catalysts do several surprising things to assist with daily life – from bread making to turning raw materials into fuels more efficiently. Now, SLAC researchers have developed a way to speed up the discovery process for a promising new class of...
9-Jan-2025 9:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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SLAC Will Play a Key Role in DOE's New Research Centers for Advancing Next-Generation Microelectronics

Funded by the Department of Energy, these centers are part of an effort that brings together national laboratories, universities and industry to invent and accelerate novel microelectronics technologies to operate efficiently or in extreme...
7-Jan-2025 6:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Dark Matter, Neutrinos and Drug Discovery: How AI Is Powering SLAC Science and Technology

Check out the second of a two-part series exploring how artificial intelligence helps researchers from around the world perform cutting-edge science with the lab’s state-of-the-art facilities and instruments. Read part one here. In this part...
5-Dec-2024 12:00 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Taming Big Data and Particle Beams: How SLAC Researchers Are Pushing AI to the Edge

Check out the first of a two-part series exploring how artificial intelligence helps researchers from around the world perform cutting-edge science with the lab’s state-of-the-art facilities and instruments. In this part you’ll learn how SLAC...
5-Dec-2024 8:00 AM EST Add to Favorites

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SLAC Celebrates 50 Years of Nobel-Winning Discovery in Particle Physics

In 1974, the independent discovery of the J/psi particle at SLAC and Brookhaven National Laboratory rocked the physics world, and entire textbooks had to be rewritten. Earlier this month, SLAC hosted a symposium to celebrate the milestone.
20-Nov-2024 7:30 PM EST Add to Favorites

How Microbes Create the Most Toxic Form of Mercury

SLAC’s SSRL helps pin down key players in the microbial production of methylmercury, a poison that can accumulate in fish.
15-Nov-2024 2:20 PM EST Add to Favorites

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A Modular Neutrino Detector Years in the Making

The prototype DUNE 2x2 detector will capture up to 10,000 neutrino interactions per day. Researchers developed the new detector and advanced machine learning techniques to probe what all those neutrinos are up to.
30-Sep-2024 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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New Upgrade Will Supercharge Atomic Vision of the World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser

The Department of Energy (DOE) has given the green light for construction to begin on a high-energy upgrade that will further boost the performance of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world’s most powerful X-ray free-electron laser...
23-Sep-2024 6:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites


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SLAC scientists explain: What is inertial fusion energy?

Following ignition demonstrations at the National Ignition Facility, the prospect of developing a fusion energy source using lasers looks brighter than ever. Here, SLAC experts weigh in on what it will take to develop the science and technology...
21-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST

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Q&A: From particle beams to cancer treatment – fundamental research that affects everyday life

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory study some of the most fundamental questions about our universe: What are the properties of elementary particles? What drives the expansion of the universe? But the...
7-Mar-2022 12:35 PM EST

SLAC’s Panofsky fellows talk about what makes their research so exciting

Among the many scientists who push the frontiers of knowledge at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the Panofsky fellows stand out.
3-Jun-2021 1:20 PM EDT

A day in the life of an X-ray laser coach

SLAC scientist Siqi Li works on new methods to allow researchers using LCLS, our X-ray laser, to observe the motion of electrons or do high-resolution imaging. When she’s not working to create more efficient and advanced X-ray lasers, Li likes to...
29-Jan-2020 6:25 PM EST

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Q&A: SLAC Theorist Lance Dixon Explains Quantum Gravity

In this Q&A, Particle Physics and Astrophysics Professor Lance Dixon of Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory explains one approach to developing such a theory, called quantum gravity.
18-Nov-2015 12:05 PM EST

SLAC Researchers to Present at AAAS 2015

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory researchers will share the latest discoveries and innovations in a wide range of fields at this year’s AAAS Annual Meeting (Feb. 12-16 in San Jose, Calif.), including X-ray lasers, quantum materials, citizen...
10-Feb-2015 6:40 PM EST

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