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Tomorrow's innovations will come from autonomous labs that slash discovery time, and SLAC's facilities are taking the lead in a new collaboration with Stanford, other national labs, universities, and industry.

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Star formation populates this image of the Seagull Nebula taken in Fall 2024 by Rubin Observatory’s engineering test camera.

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Researchers at SLAC are using high-energy X-ray pulses probe electronic motion deep within atoms and dense plasmas.

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They will explore proteins that are sensitive to magnetic fields and equations that explain our universe at the smallest and largest scales.

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Adam Nielander will pursue research on light-powered catalysts for next generation energy technologies

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Researchers at SLAC are using high-energy X-ray pulses probe electronic motion deep within atoms and dense plasmas.

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They will explore proteins that are sensitive to magnetic fields and equations that explain our universe at the smallest and largest scales.

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Adam Nielander will pursue research on light-powered catalysts for next generation energy technologies

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Stanford and SLAC faculty members Wendy Mao and Alberto Salleo have been honored for work in compressed-matter physics and polymer electronic materials.

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Using X-ray free-electron lasers like SLAC’s LCLS, researchers study how enzymes catalyze reactions, which could help them develop drugs and other medical treatments.

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Announced by the DOE today, the funded project will explore the use of Super Intelligence to accelerate our understanding of a process central to...

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A SLAC-Stanford team developed a new way to precisely measure just how much energy has dissipated into heat in an electrical system – and...

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SLAC and Stanford scientists used ultrafast electrons and a laser to reveal an unexpectedly strong optical response to ionization, opening new possibilities for radiological...

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New research reveals how a molecule absorbs light and gains a proton while its watery environment reorganizes in response.

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Dark matter makes up about 85% of all matter in the universe, yet its true identity remains one of the biggest cosmological mysteries. At SLAC, researchers are searching high and low to find answers.

The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in the Chilean Andes brings the cosmos to life like never before. During the first 10 years of operation, Rubin Observatory will conduct the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), creating the widest, fastest, and deepest views of the night sky ever observed.

A drone photo of Rubin Observatory while taking pictures during the First Look observing campaign

Harnessing nuclear fusion would bring the clean, unlimited energy of the stars to Earth.

Now, we’re turning up the energy. The high-energy upgrade to LCLS will extend its ultrafast megahertz capability into the “hard,” or high-energy, X-ray regime.

The first of 23 cryomodules is delivered to SLAC for the high energy upgrade to the Linac Coherent Light Source

Explore how SLAC advances energy research, partnering with Stanford University, the U.S. Department of Energy and industry, to help create a more reliable, affordable and sustainable energy future.

SLAC scientist working on batteries at scale in the SLAC–Stanford Battery Center in the Arrillaga Science Center

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SLAC leads new project to build the self-driving laboratory of the future

Seagull Nebula through the eyes of NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Commissioning Camera

SLAC’s X-ray laser sets a record for shortest high-energy pulses ever generated by an XFEL

Shaun Burd and Miguel Correia awarded 2026 Panofsky Fellowships at SLAC

SLAC researcher receives DOE Early Career Research Program award

SLAC’s X-ray laser sets a record for shortest high-energy pulses ever generated by an XFEL

Shaun Burd and Miguel Correia awarded 2026 Panofsky Fellowships at SLAC

SLAC researcher receives DOE Early Career Research Program award

Two SLAC scientists named American Physical Society Fellows

Researchers make ‘molecular movies’ with powerful X-rays to help advance therapeutics

SLAC to lead a Department of Energy Genesis Mission project for Super Intelligence (SI)-driven autonomous discovery in catalysis

To make computers more energy efficient, SLAC researchers follow the heat

Ultrafast electrons and lasers open possibilities for better imaging and sensing technologies

Scientists capture first molecular-level images of water reorganization during a reaction crucial for life

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