News archive

Browse the full collection of SLAC news releases and features and stay up to date on the latest scientific advancements at the laboratory.

The team is the first to directly observe a unique property in an altermagnetic candidate material, key evidence of a new phase of magnetism.

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The candidate orbits our sun beyond Pluto, and may be among the largest and brightest objects discovered in this region of the solar system.

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The machine learning program SPINE has become a backbone of neutrino experiments worldwide, decoding complex detector images to help scientists unlock the secrets of these elusive particles.

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Star formation populates this image of the Seagull Nebula taken in Fall 2024 by Rubin Observatory’s engineering test camera.

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Researchers at SLAC are using high-energy X-ray pulses probe electronic motion deep within atoms and dense plasmas. 

Aerial View of The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC at sunrise.

They will explore proteins that are sensitive to magnetic fields and equations that explain our universe at the smallest and largest scales. 

Miguel Correia and Shaun Burd

Adam Nielander will pursue research on light-powered catalysts for next generation energy technologies

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Stanford and SLAC faculty members Wendy Mao and Alberto Salleo have been honored for work in compressed-matter physics and polymer electronic materials.

Wendy Mao and Alberto Salleo

Using X-ray free-electron lasers like SLAC’s LCLS, researchers study how enzymes catalyze reactions, which could help them develop drugs and other medical treatments.

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Tomorrow's innovations will come from autonomous labs that slash discovery time, and SLAC's facilities are taking the lead in a new collaboration with Stanford, other national labs, universities, and industry.

Illustration depicting self-driving lab from accelerator to experiment