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A major international effort at SLAC is focused on improving our views of intact viruses, living bacteria and other tiny samples using the brightest X-ray light on Earth.

Graham George and Ingrid Pickering, a husband and wife X-ray research team, are co-leading a new study in Bangladesh to test whether selenium supplements can protect people from arsenic poisoning.

Image - Ingrid Pickering and Graham George, a husband-and-wife X-ray research team, stand next to the controls of SSRL Beam Line 7-3 during a research sabbatical at SLAC. (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

A SLAC-led research team working at the lab’s FACET facility has demonstrated a new way of accelerating positrons that could help develop smaller, more economical future particle colliders.

Simulation of high-energy positron acceleration in an ionized gas, or plasma

Exploding stars have an immense capacity to destroy—and create.

Theorists from the Institute for Advanced Study have proposed a way forward in the quest to test string theory.

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, scientists got a textbook-worthy result that may change the way matter is probed at X-ray free-electron lasers.

The Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser at SLAC

The CMS and ATLAS experiments combined forces to more precisely measure properties of the Higgs boson.

Researchers at SLAC have for the first time seen a spin current – an inherent magnetic property common to all electrons – as it travels across materials.

Image - This illustration shows the flow of a magnetic property of electrons known as spin current from a magnetic material (blue), to a nonmagnetic material (red). (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Since it began operation in 2009, SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) has allowed scientists to make new types of X-ray measurements that were once thought unattainable by delivering one trillion X-ray photons – particles of X-ray light – in...

Visit the immersive Nobel Labs 360 website about Kobilka, including an interactive tour of his work at SSRL. To find the SSRL section, click twice on the window in the upper right corner.

Understanding Motions of Thin Layers May Help Design Solar Cells, Electronics and Catalysts of the Future

a three-atom-thick layer of a promising material as it wrinkles in response to a laser pulse

A SLAC study observed silica's shockingly fast transformation into a highly compressed form found in meteor craters.

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Global Team Seeks Individual X-ray Portraits of Active Viruses, Bacteria and Cell Components

X-ray Duo's Research Helps Launch Human Trial for Treatment of Arsenic Poisoning

Antimatter Catches a Wave at SLAC

All About Supernovae

Looking for Strings Inside Inflation

Q&A: Researchers Explain a Strange High-Intensity Result at SLAC's X-ray Laser

Combined Results Find Higgs Still Standard

Researchers See 'Spin Current' in Motion for the First Time

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Explore the World of Nobel Laureate Brian Kobilka

SLAC’s Ultrafast ‘Electron Camera’ Visualizes Ripples in 2-D Material

Scientists Use Lasers to Simulate Shock Effects of Meteorite Impact on Silica