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Symmetry: Engineering the world’s largest digital camera
LSST’s builders face extraordinary technical challenges
LSST camera engineering
Global view of battery failure
New results could enable manufacturers to design more reliable and longer-lasting batteries for smartphones and cars
battery electrode damage
LCLS-II fires first electrons
They will drive the production of up to a million X-ray flashes per second in the next-gen X-ray laser
LCLS-II first electron beam
Small but mighty
For the first time, researchers detect chemical traces of red pigment in an ancient fossil – an exceptionally well-preserved mouse
mighty mouse false color

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A quick liquid flip helps explain how morphing materials store information
Experiments at SLAC’s X-ray laser reveal in atomic detail how two distinct liquid phases in these materials enable fast switching between glassy and crystalline states that represent 0s and 1s in memory devices.
Diagram of material switching between glassy and crystalline states
A day in the life of a synchrotron duty operator
For mechanical engineer Sarah Edwards, SSRL is the ultimate classic car.
photo of Sarah Edwards
In brief: Radiation damage lowers melting point of potential fusion reactor material
SLAC’s ‘electron camera’ films rapidly melting tungsten and reveals atomic-level material behavior...
Tungsten melting
In brief: A new collider concept would take quantum theories to an extreme
The approach could advance our understanding of fundamental forces under extreme conditions with...
QED extreme
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Seeing red in the fossil record
The New York TImes
Stanford scientists created a sound so loud it instantly boils water
CNET
How A.I. can help handle severe weather
The New York Times
Q&A: Herman Winick, accelerator physicist and human rights activist
Physics Today
This four-inch antenna could let you text from deep underground
Engadget
Wicked fast data transport
Forbes

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