Glennda Chui

Senior Editor

Glennda edits all sorts of materials and writes about things like quantum materials, making fuels from water and building better batteries. She’s a former science reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and lecturer in the UC Santa Cruz Science Communication Program, and holds a bachelor's degree in biology and a master's degree in journalism. She’s fond of tiny things, from skyrmions to spiders, and loves to sing and dance.

News Brief

A SLAC study shows a process called atomic relaxation offers a new way to explore quantum states in these puzzling materials.

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Press Release

Charging lithium-ion batteries at high currents just before they leave the factory is 30 times faster and increases battery lifespans by 50%, according to...

An illustration shows batteries flow down an assembly line, turning them from gray to green.

News Feature

His wide-ranging curiosity, original way of looking at problems and sheer joy in solving them drove many important contributions to particle physics.

SLAC theoretical physicist James D. "BJ" Bjorken

News Feature

Seen in atomic detail, the seemingly smooth flow of ions through a battery’s electrolyte is a lot more complicated.

Photo of the laser lab apparatus used in the hopping ions experiment.

News Feature

Wan-Lin Hu’s job is to improve the way people and artificial intelligence collaborate to run SLAC’s complex machines.

Wan-Lin Hu is seen talking with talks with accelerator systems operator Kabir Lubana in the lab’s main Accelerator Control Room.

News Brief

SLAC and its partners have released a free, easy-to-use platform for understanding and managing electric grids.

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Slow atomic movements shed new light on unconventional superconductivity

Researchers discover a surprising way to jump-start battery performance

Remembering theoretical physicist James D. “BJ” Bjorken, 90, who played a crucial role in discovering quarks

A battery’s hopping ions remember where they’ve been

A day in the life of a human-in-the-loop engineer

SLAC and its partners release a free, easy-to-use platform for understanding and managing electric grids

Written by Glennda Chui