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To invent a new tool for studying how chemicals react at interfaces, researchers shoot tiny jets of oil and water at each other and illuminate them.

Rainbow colors in a sheet of layered liquids

LSST Camera images provide the inspiration for artist Lennart Lahuis’s “Astromelancholia.”

A machine learning algorithm automatically extracts information to speed up – and extend – the study of materials with X-ray pulse pairs.

A pattern of red and yellow dots surrounded by a ring of blue dots on a black background.

Two GEM Fellows reflect on their summer internships at SLAC and share their thoughts on representation and mentorship.

For decades, materials scientists have focused on materials that are relatively balanced and unchanging – but not Yijing Huang, a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. With the aid of SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source...

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.

Blaine Mooers, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, has won this year’s Farrel W. Lytle Award for advancing synchrotron science and RNA editing research at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National...

The Stanford Board of Trustees held its first meeting of the 2022-23 academic year Oct. 17-18. Trustees toured the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and met the new dean of the Doerr School of Sustainability, among other matters.

Encapsulating precious-metal catalysts in a web-like alumina framework could reduce the amount needed in catalytic converters – and our dependency on these scarce metals.

A web of red material encapsulates blue polyhedrons.

Bernhard Mistlberger will receive the APS's 2023 Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics for his work on precision Standard Model calculations.

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Shining a new light on oil-slick rainbows and other thin-layer physics

Finding art in astrophysics technology

Artificial intelligence deciphers detector "clouds" to accelerate materials research

GEM Fellowship aims to increase representation in STEM

Yijing Huang wins 2022 LCLS Young Investigator Award for work on controlling unique structures of semiconductors

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

Blaine Mooers wins 2022 Lytle Award for decades of synchrotron leadership and RNA research

‘Real-world impact’: Stanford Board of Trustees learns how SLAC can change the future

Molecular cage protects precious metals in catalytic converters

SLAC physicist wins American Physical Society early career award