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With up to a million X-ray flashes per second, 8,000 times more than its predecessor, it transforms the ability of scientists to explore atomic-scale, ultrafast phenomena that are key to a broad range of applications, from quantum materials to clean...

Physicist and scientific leader Sarrao will become SLAC’s sixth director and succeeds X-ray scientist Chi-Chang Kao, who stepped down after 10 years in the position.

After decades of effort, scientists have finally seen the process by which nature creates the oxygen we breathe using SLAC’s X-ray laser.

New SLAC-Stanford Battery Center bridges the gaps between discovering, manufacturing and deploying innovative energy storage solutions.

Illustration showing a battery researcher at left, a battery at center and a grid of battery applications at right.

Researchers used cryo-EM (left) to discover how a chamber in human cells (right) directs protein folding.

A pom-pom like object with curly tangles in purple and blue shades and yellow tangles at center, reminiscent of a zinnia blossom.

Chi-Chang Kao has decided to return to research after serving 10 years as director of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He will continue in the lab director role until a replacement is found.

Powerful X-rays from SLAC’s synchrotron reveal that our immune system’s primary wiring seems to be no match for a brutal SARS-CoV-2 protein.

A new study has found that “diamond rain,” a long-hypothesized exotic type of precipitation on ice giant planets, could be more common than previously thought. In an earlier experiment, researchers mimicked the extreme temperatures and pressures found deep inside ice...

The facility, LCLS-II, will soon sharpen our view of how nature works on ultrasmall, ultrafast scales, impacting everything from quantum devices to clean energy.

The work sheds light on the web of hydrogen bonds that gives water its strange properties, which play a vital role in many chemical and biological processes.

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SLAC fires up the world’s most powerful X-ray laser: LCLS-II ushers in a new era of science

John Sarrao Named Director of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Researchers capture elusive missing step in the final act of photosynthesis

New SLAC-Stanford Battery Center targets roadblocks to a sustainable energy transition

SLAC/Stanford researchers discover how a nano-chamber in the cell directs protein folding

Chi-Chang Kao to step down as SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory director

SARS-CoV-2 protein caught severing critical immunity pathway

‘Diamond rain’ on giant icy planets could be more common than previously thought

SLAC’s superconducting X-ray laser reaches operating temperature colder than outer space

In a first, scientists capture a ‘quantum tug’ between neighboring water molecules