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.

A new NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory image featuring hundreds of thousands of distant galaxies in and around the COSMOS field marks the Observatory’s first LSST Camera image and catalog release for science.

Field of night sky with stars and galaxies

A new program led by SLAC and Sandia national laboratories connects investors and entrepreneurs with Department of Energy scientists to launch startups in key technology areas.

Hand holding a compass made with blue light

Researchers from the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center join USC in a project to help secure the U.S. supply of critical minerals.

Illustration of battery waste, AI agents and critical minerals

Driven by curiosity about nature, SLAC researcher Shannon Harvey develops quantum dots, a mass-producible type of qubit, as part of the Q-NEXT collaboration.

Researchers working with a dilution refrigerator, a piece of equipment that is made of gold-colored metal and resembles a chandelier.

The 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time has officially started, marking the beginning of a new era in astronomy and astrophysics.

Ocean of Stars

Using the powerful LCLS X-ray laser, researchers at SLAC have directly imaged for the first time how molecules rearrange during a chemical reaction controlled by light.

Illustration of probe-pump-dump for imaging

The lab’s contributions to the national AI initiative are bolstered by its breakthrough scientific tools, unprecedented data and unique partnerships that help illuminate nature from the expansion of the universe to the motions of electrons.

Sunrise over SLAC campus

The bioengineering professor will guide the university’s partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory.

Person standing in front of building

As QuantISED enters its next phase in its effort to develop quantum technologies capable of exploring some of the universe’s biggest unanswered questions, scientists reflect on what the first round made possible and what comes next.

quantised

By adjusting the heating process when making lithium-ion cathodes, the team created batteries that retained nearly 93% of their energy after 500 cycles. 

Two line graphs with time axis, yellow arrow between them, 3D gray sphere with wedge beside yellow crystal, yellow-coated sphere on right, bottom panels showing uniform yellow-orange circular heat map and less-cracked orange circle, labeled "Uniform reaction, Homogeneous Ni states, Less cracked."