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Imaging at SLAC's synchrotron demonstrates the twisted structures’ exotic properties that could benefit the development of superconductors and quantum materials.

SLAC develops and deploys some of the world’s most advanced scientific tools for exploring how the universe works at the biggest, smallest and fastest scales. Here we explain how they work and the exciting discoveries they make possible.

SAGE campers have fun experimenting with a Van de Graff generator

The latest results combined weak lensing and galaxy clustering and incorporated four dark energy probes from a single experiment for the first time.

Photo of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in the Chilean Andes at night.

The LSST Camera explores cosmic mysteries as part of the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

The background shows a compilation of the first images taken with the LSST Camera at Rubin Observatory. The overlay shows the LSST Camera in the cleanroom at SLAC before it was shipped to be installed into the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

The pandemic forced major changes to the format, but 30 teams from 22 schools still came together online to vie for a slot at nationals.

A screenshot of competitors and volunteers in a video conference call.

Using SSRL, scientists uncovered fossil evidence that the first groups of vertebrates possessed surprisingly advanced eyes.

fossil specimen in gray rock with bright marcations overlain

A Accelerator on a Chip (ACHIP) Admin guide, Stanford All-employee memos Archives, History and Record Office (AHRO) ATLAS Atlas@SLAC

The lab is organized into six scientific directorates, each of which plays an important role in advancing our lab, backed by our core operations teams all supporting our shared mission.