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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.

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.

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Announced by the DOE today, the funded project will explore the use of Super Intelligence to accelerate our understanding of a process central to energy and chemical production. SLAC will also play a key role in eight other Genesis Mission...

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A SLAC-Stanford team developed a new way to precisely measure just how much energy has dissipated into heat in an electrical system – and how to optimize it.

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SLAC and Stanford scientists used ultrafast electrons and a laser to reveal an unexpectedly strong optical response to ionization, opening new possibilities for radiological imaging and sensing while shedding light on the fundamental behavior of materials.

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The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment observed a particle interaction that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPs, a dark matter candidate – but researchers will need more data to confirm.

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New research reveals how a molecule absorbs light and gains a proton while its watery environment reorganizes in response.

In background, photo of equipment used in the study. At left in front, drawing of a water droplet with a chemical structure and diagram showing electron and proton transfer.

SLAC and Stanford researchers found that compressing solid-state battery material reduced the formation of lithium-filled cracks called dendrites, leading to faster charging and longer battery life.

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The deep-underground experiment could produce early-scientific results in the search for one of nature’s most elusive substances even, before reaching optimal sensitivity when the full search begins next year.

Two SLAC scientists named American Physical Society Fellows

Researchers make ‘molecular movies’ with powerful X-rays to help advance therapeutics

SLAC leads new project to build the self-driving laboratory of the future

SLAC to lead a Department of Energy Genesis Mission project for Super Intelligence (SI)-driven autonomous discovery in catalysis

To make computers more energy efficient, SLAC researchers follow the heat

Ultrafast electrons and lasers open possibilities for better imaging and sensing technologies

LZ sees surprising result in search for dark matter

Scientists capture first molecular-level images of water reorganization during a reaction crucial for life

Giving solid-state batteries a squeeze keeps them from short-circuiting

SuperCDMS SNOLAB begins preliminary phase of dark matter hunt