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.

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.

View of a city at twilight with a power transmission tower in foreground

News Feature

Strongly interacting electrons in quantum materials carry heat and charge in a way that’s surprisingly similar to what individual electrons do in normal metals...