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News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

The Life of an Accelerator

As it evolves, SLAC's linear accelerator illustrates some important technologies from the history of accelerator science.

Paving the way for flexible electronics, engineers have developed a plastic electrode that stretches like rubber but carries electricity like wires.

A new paper describes a way to fabricate glasses that can correct X-ray focusing problems at synchrotrons and X-ray lasers.

A research collaboration designed a new assembly-line system that rapidly replaces exposed samples and allows the team to study reactions in real-time.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Instrument Finds New Earthly Purpose

Detectors long used to look at the cosmos are now part of X-ray experiments here on Earth.

After losing its first match of the day to the defending champions, The Harker School’s team won 10 consecutive rounds to claim victory in the annual SLAC Regional DOE Science Bowl.

Harker's championship team
News Feature · VIA Stanford News

Uranium From Seawater Factors Into Nuclear Power

Researchers, including from SIMES, say extracting uranium from seawater could help nuclear power play a larger role in a carbon-free energy future.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Wizardly Neutrinos

Why can a neutrino pass through solid objects?

X-rays show details of an insect virus’s crystalline cocoon with sub-nanometer resolution.

News Feature · VIA Stanford News

H. Pierre Noyes, Theoretical Physicist, Dies at 92

H. Pierre Noyes, the first director of SLAC's Theory Group, died in Stanford on Sept. 30, 2016, at age 92. Noyes, a theoretical physicist, leaves behind a legacy of distinctive academic work and activism.

photo - pierre noyes

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