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Stillframe image for public lecture featuring Elizabeth Ryland

Searching for Trolls under the Electron Bridge (recording)

A look inside SLAC’s FACET-II test facility

FACET-II test facility

Cryo-EM computer image

Cryo-EM lamellae

When light drives electron transfer in a molecular complex, the surrounding solvent molecules also rapidly move.

Electron transfer in a molecular complex

Identifying each tiny chemical step in photosynthesis could aid the development of renewable energy technology.

Cryomodule lifted from truck

Cryomodule lifted from truck

SLAC's LSST team carefully unpack, examine, test and store the r-band filter.

LSST Camera r-band optical filter

Research associate Megan Mayer and graduate student Patrick Mitchell load a sample into a cryogenic electron microscope at SLAC.

Cryogenic electron microscope (Cryo-EM)

LSST camera focal plane

LSST camera focal plane

X-ray imaging at synchrotrons has given scientists the chemical evidence needed to discover the actual colors of ancient life forms.

Colors of ancient life forms

X-ray of ancient medical manuscript at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL).

X-ray of ancient medical manuscript

A small fuel cell inside of a sample chamber at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL).

Small fuel cell inside of a sample chamber

Nilsson science cover

Chemical reaction

Molecular movie filmstrip.

XFELs: Spying on atoms and molecules

The Laser Science and Technology (LST) division of the LCLS provides operational support for laser systems used in the LCLS photoinjector and experimental end stations.

The Laser Science and Technology (LST) division of the LCLS

Exploded view of LSST Camera.

Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera

Kayla Ninh at LCLS’s ChemRIX Hutch 2.2 in Near Experimental Hall.

LCLS’s ChemRIX Hutch 2.2

SLAC aerial of linac

SLAC aerial of linac

Learn about science at SLAC.

SLAC Facilities & Centers

Dwarf Galaxy 3.

Roger Kornberg received the 2006 chemistry Nobel for work on RNA transcriptase

Chandra Curry working in the MEC hutch

Chandra Curry working in the MEC hutch

A spectrometer at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource

SSRL spectrometer

This illustration shows arrestin, an important type of signaling protein

Arrestin signaling protein

Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Undulator Hall

Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Undulator Hall

Inspection of the LSST Camera optical filters

LSST Camera optical filter inspection

Electrons travel through niobium cavities at SLAC's LCLS-II facility.

Electrons travel through niobium cavities at SLAC’s LCLS-II facility

SARS-CoV-2-NEMO

SARS-CoV-2 protein

A brightly colored top is seen spinning between two layers of gray, purple and red spheres representing atoms in a nickel oxide superconductor. The top represents a fundamental particle called a muon.

A muon spins like a top

illustration of universe and human eye

Seeing the Universe Through Quantum Eyes

LCLS-II cooldown

LCLS-II cooldown

Cryoplant flow animation

Cryoplant flow animation

LSST data illustration

LSST data illustration

SLAC’s Chris Kenney holds a 16-module

Last cryomodule unload, #41 from Fermilab F1.3-06. This one will be one of a few spares for LCLS-II.

Last cryomodule for LCLS-II

Staff engineer Bruis van Vlijmen holds a single battery cell inside the Battery Informatics Lab at SLAC

A single battery cell

Staff engineer Bruis van Vlijmen demonstrates how he works in the Battery Informatics Lab at SLAC

Battery Informatics Lab

Studies of electrode nanoparticles for batteries.

Battery dynamics

Photo - Vera C. Rubin Observatory

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera

Illustration of an abrupt transition in the normal state of a cuprate

Superconductivity

Molecular Movie in HD Art

Molecular movie

Proposed design of a future device for X-ray therapy

PHASER Design - Technology Innovation Directorate (TID)

illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity – a key component of SLAC’s future LCLS-II X-ray laser.

LCLS-II Accelerator Cavity

FACET-II science

FACET-II science

Mayall Telescope Star Trails

Mayall Telescope Star Trails

Neural Nets and Gravitational Lenses

Neural Nets and Gravitational Lenses

A cutaway depicts the interior of Neptune (right) and an illustration of diamond rain (left).

infrared laser beam triggers atomic vibrations in a thin layer of iron selenide

Atomic vibrations

LSST cutaway

First microscopic movies of liquids getting vaporized.

X-ray & ultrafast science

Cover art of imperfect crystals.

Imperfect crystals

$video stillframe of ultrafast electron diffraction$

Ultrafast Electron Diffraction: How It Works

This illustration shows how the first experiment at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser stripped away electrons from neon atoms. (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

‘Supercharging’ Atoms with X-ray Laser

Photo - A view of a chamber inside the LAMP instrument during its installation at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser. (SLAC)

LAMP instrument

Photo of an array of accelerator chips on a disc

Array of accelerator chips on a disc

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