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Promoting understanding, appreciation and support for SLAC's forefront research, the Office of Communications serves as the primary contact between the laboratory, media and press, community organizations and the public.

Lastest Press Releases

Nov 2, 2009

Science Begins at the World's Most Powerful X-ray Laser

The first experiments are now underway using the world's most powerful X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source, located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Illuminating objects and processes at unprecedented speed and scale, the LCLS has embarked on groundbreaking research in physics, structural biology, energy science, chemistry and a host of other fields.

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Nov 2, 2009

High-Precision Measurements Confirm Cosmologists' Standard View of Universe

A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled by an international team co-led by Sarah Church of KIPAC, jointly located SLAC and Stanford University, and by Walter Gear, of Cardiff University (UK). These measurements put limits on proposed alternatives to the standard model of cosmology and provide further support for the standard cosmological model, confirming that dark matter and dark energy make up 95% of everything in existence.

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Aug 11, 2009

SLAC Researchers Reveal the Dance of Water

Water is familiar to everyone—it shapes our bodies and our planet. But despite this abundance, the molecular structure of water has remained a mystery. Recent work at SLAC, however, is shedding new light on water’s molecular idiosyncrasies, offering unprecedented insight into its strange bulk properties.

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Aug 10, 2009

First Black Holes Born Starving

The first black holes in the universe had dramatic effects on their surroundings, according to recent simulations carried out at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology.

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Aug 7, 2009

SLAC to Receive Additional $21.8M in Recovery Act Funding for New Research Instruments

SLAC will receive $21.8 million in new funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The funding will catalyze instrumentation construction and improvements at the laboratory's two light source research facilities, the Linac Coherent Light Source and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource.

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