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'Electron Camera' Catches Molecules at the Moment They Decide How to Respond to Light
UED Bond Breaking
Predicting Recipes for New Materials
X-ray Experiment Confirms a New Computational Approach to Designing Materials for Energy Technologies
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Cooking Gold for Tougher Materials
Atomic Movie of Melting Gold Could Help Design Materials for Fusion Reactors
UED Gold Melting
Next-Gen EEG Could Help Bring Back Lost Brain Function
Medical Device Combines Electrical Brain Stimulation With EEG Recording
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X-Ray Experiment Confirms Theoretical Model for Making New Materials
By observing changes in materials as they’re being synthesized, scientists hope to learn how they form and come up with recipes for making the materials they need for next-gen energy technologies.
Polymorph formation
Four SLAC Scientists Awarded Prestigious DOE Early Career Research Grants
Tais Gorkhover, Michael Kagan, Kazuhiro Terao and Joshua Turner will each receive $2.5 million for...
Photos of SLAC's 2018 Early Career Award winners
Scientists Make the First Molecular Movie of One of Nature’s Most Widely Used Light Sensors
The X-ray laser movie shows what happens when light hits retinal, a key part of vision in animals...
An image of San Francisco Bay salt ponds from space
SLAC, Stanford Scientists Discover How a Hardy Microbe’s Crystalline Shell Helps it Reel in Food
Tiny pores in the shells of archaea microbes attract ammonium ions that are their sole source of...
Artist's depiction of a tiny pore in an archaea's crystalline shell
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Jolt the Brain, Then Listen Closely
IEEE Spectrum
A Fresh Slice of Electrons Feeds Enhanced X-Rays
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Stanford's New Lab Could Make Particle Accelerators 1,000 Times Smaller
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