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Stanford and SLAC engineers observed electrons at work during catalytic reactions. Their findings challenge long-held theories about some catalysts, opening the door to new or improved renewable energy applications.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

20-Ton Magnet Heads to New York

A superconducting magnet begins its journey from SLAC laboratory in California to Brookhaven Lab in New York.

Photo of magnet move

His election recognizes a long history of accomplishment that began more than two decades ago at the SLAC Linear Collider.

SLAC staff physicist Peter Rowson (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
News Feature · via <em>Symmetry Magazine</em>

Mirror, Mirror

After more than six years of grinding and polishing, the first-ever dual-surface mirror for a major telescope is complete.

Plans to build the world’s largest digital camera at SLAC have reached a major milestone, with funding approval for the 3,200-megapixel camera. The camera will be the centerpiece of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which will provide unprecedented details...

SLAC study shows the so-called ‘pseudogap’ hoards electrons that otherwise might pair up to carry current through a material with 100 percent efficiency.

Experiments have helped explain some of the imbalance between matter and antimatter in the universe, but not all of it. Now a SLAC theorist and his colleagues have laid out a possible method for determining if the Higgs boson is...

Higgs jet diagram

A scientist at Germany’s DESY lab who participated in pioneering studies at SLAC's LCLS has been awarded a scientific prize by a research foundation.

Image - Henry Chapman (DESY)

Understanding details of a flu antibody offers new insight for future structure-based drug discovery and novel avenues for designing vaccines.

A false color image of an influenza virus particle

Researchers captured the highest-resolution snapshots ever taken with an X-ray laser that show changes in a protein’s structure over time.

Image - This illustration depicts an experiment at SLAC that revealed how a protein from photosynthetic bacteria changes shape in response to light.

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