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A prototype section of the proposed Cool Cooper Collider beam tunnel.

Disabling those hinges could be a good strategy for designing vaccines and treatments against a broad range of coronavirus infections.

A 3D image of a round, spiky coronavirus with inset showing how far its spikes can bend.

No human cell can function without these tiny machines, which cause disease when they go haywire and offer potential targets for therapeutic drugs.

Illustration of molecular Ferris wheel moving protons

They found that gently heating N95 masks in high relative humidity could inactivate SARS-CoV-2 virus trapped within the masks, without degrading the masks’ performance.

Medical workers donning personal protective equipment

Research associate Megan Mayer and graduate student Patrick Mitchell load a sample into a cryogenic electron microscope at SLAC.

LCLS Undulator Hall with both soft X-ray undulators, left, and hard X-ray undulators, right.

Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Undulator Hall

Identifying each tiny chemical step in photosynthesis could aid the development of renewable energy technology.

A look inside SLAC’s FACET-II test facility, where scientists use electron beams to advance revolutionary technologies that could make future particle accelerators much smaller and a lot more capable.

This illustration shows arrestin, an important type of signaling protein, while docked with rhodopsin, a G protein-coupled receptor.

This image shows the SARS-CoV-2 virus's main protease, Mpro, and two strands of a human protein, called NEMO.

Last cryomodule unload, #41 from Fermilab F1.3-06. This one will be one of a few spares for LCLS-II.

Kayla Ninh at LCLS’s ChemRIX Hutch 2.2 in Near Experimental Hall.

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Cool Cooper Collider beam tunnel

How tiny hinges bend the infection-spreading spikes of a coronavirus

First detailed look at how a molecular Ferris wheel delivers protons to cellular factories

Faced with pandemic shortages, researchers combine heat and humidity to disinfect N95 masks for reuse

Cryogenic electron microscope (Cryo-EM)

Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Undulator Hall

Photosystem-II

FACET-II test facility

Arrestin signaling protein

SARS-CoV-2 protein

Last cryomodule for LCLS-II

LCLS’s ChemRIX Hutch 2.2