News archive

Browse the full collection of SLAC news releases and features and stay up to date on the latest scientific advancements at the laboratory.

Researchers used X-ray lasers to control a modified cardiovascular drug with light and captured snapshots showing how it binds to proteins.

Photo of medications, pills and capsules

Researchers reengineered an ePix10k detector for use in ultrafast electron diffraction, empowering studies of chemical processes that were previously out of reach. 

Photo of the detection chamber of SLAC's MeV-UED instrument

Rubin’s largest asteroid haul yet, gathered before the Legacy Survey of Space and Time even begins, is just the “tip of the iceberg.”

Illustration of asteroids

The research sheds light on how a key regulator of inflammation forms, which could help guide new therapeutic approaches to inflammatory diseases.

inflammasome

Argonne, SLAC researchers designed a chip that compresses and processes detector data instantly, letting scientists analyze results and steer experiments as they happen.

Silicon chip that integrates both imaging sensors and data compression, shown next to a U.S. penny

By instigating atomic disorder in lithium-ion battery materials, researchers created more stable materials that don’t expand, contract and degrade like traditional materials do.

Illustration of layers in a battery material

The winning teams from Lynbrook High School and Joaquin Miller Middle School will continue on to nationals.

eight middle school students sit behind a long table at the front of an auditorium with buzzers in front of them as they compete in a science knowledge competition

SLAC researchers and collaborators trained a neural network that can use ion momentum to work backward and predict the pre-blast geometry of a molecule.

Illustration of AI used for the reconstruction of the structure of molecules blown up by X-ray pulses

The experiment’s detectors have reached their operating temperature, almost a thousand times colder than outer space.

SuperCDMS team members posing with a detector tower.

An international team of researchers simulated magnetic forces in the early universe and found they could bridge the gap between the observed and calculated rates of the universe’s expansion.

A simulation of the distribution of matter in the early universe