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Tais Gorkhover wins LCLS Young Investigator Award for pioneering novel X-ray imaging methods

The early-career award honors a promising leader in X-ray free-electron laser research.

Catching the dance of antibiotics and ribosomes at room temperature

A new imaging technique is allowing researchers to pinpoint ways of modifying drugs to avoid side effects.

SLAC’s Ultra-High-Speed ‘Electron Camera’ Catches Molecules at a Crossroads

To break, or not to break: An unprecedented atomic movie captures the moment when molecules decide how to respond to light.

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 research that studies fundamental particles, nanoscale objects, quantum materials and machine learning.

Hidden Medical Text Read for the First Time in a Thousand Years

With X-ray imaging at SLAC’s synchrotron, scientists uncovered a 6th century translation of a book by the Greek-Roman doctor Galen. The words had been scraped off the parchment manuscript and written over with hymns in the 11th century.

With Laser Light, Scientists Create First X-Ray Holographic Images of Viruses

Using SLAC’s X-ray laser, researchers have made detailed 3-D images of nanoscale biology, with future applications in the study of air pollution, combustion and catalytic processes.

SLAC-led Study Shows Potential for Efficiently Controlling 2-D Materials With Light

In experiments with the lab’s ultrafast "electron camera," laser light hitting a material is almost completely converted into nuclear vibrations, which are key to switching a material’s properties on and off for future electronics and other applications.