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Dedicated beamline will support SLAC’s growing catalysis research community

Catalysts make our modern lives possible. By reducing the start-up energy needed for chemical reactions, they facilitate the production of fuels, plastics and textiles as well as vital water treatment processes. As a result, researchers are...
21-Apr-2025 12:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Longstanding Model Fails to Explain Spin Dynamics in 1D Cuprates

Superconductivity – the ability of some materials to conduct electricity with no energy loss – holds immense promise for new technologies from lossless power grids to advanced quantum devices.
9-Apr-2025 5:40 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Cutting-Edge Experiments Reveal ‘Hidden’ Details in Transforming Material

Using SLAC’s LCLS for one of the first studies of its kind, researchers discover surprising behaviors of a complex material that could have important implications for designing faster microelectronic devices.
2-Apr-2025 7:45 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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SLAC Scientists Created the Most Powerful Ultrashort Electron Beam in the World

Researchers carefully positioned lasers to compress billions of electrons together, creating a beam five times more powerful than ever before.
5-Mar-2025 7:30 PM EST Add to Favorites

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SLAC to Develop Fusion Energy Target Technology as Part of DOE Fusion Innovation Research Engine Collaboratives

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will contribute to the DOE’s newly established Fusion Innovative Research Engine (FIRE) Collaboratives. These collaborative teams were created to bridge basic science...
19-Feb-2025 9:10 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Researchers Record Ultrafast Chorus Dance of Electrons on Super-Small Particle

It may be the smallest, shortest chorus dance ever recorded. Researchers observed how electrons, excited by ultrafast light pulses, danced in unison around a particle less than a nanometer in diameter. As reported in Science Advances, this is the...
18-Feb-2025 7:10 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Innovative Target Design Leads to Surprising Discovery in Laser-Plasma Acceleration

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking method for generating fast, bright proton beams using a high-repetition-rate laser-plasma accelerator. This work, published in Nature Communications, resolves several long-standing challenges and ushers...
12-Feb-2025 6:50 PM EST Add to Favorites

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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 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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