![Staff engineer Bruis van Vlijmen holds a single battery cell inside the Battery Informatics Lab at SLAC](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2021_0212_ASC_Battery_Research_Orrell-99%20websize%20copy.jpg?h=c1e51c98&itok=ocpGmOrC)
A half-mile-long stretch of tunnel in Menlo Park, California is now colder than most of the universe.
![LCLS-II cooldown](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/lclsII_cooldown_pr_la_final.jpg?h=5a5fc591&itok=CDVMK27F)
Staff engineer Bruis van Vlijmen demonstrates how he works in the Battery Informatics Lab at SLAC.
![Staff engineer Bruis van Vlijmen demonstrates how he works in the Battery Informatics Lab at SLAC](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2021_0212_ASC_Battery_Research_Orrell-100%20%282%29%20websize%20copy.jpg?h=7de9594d&itok=C-nZX4jA)
SLAC’s Chris Kenney holds a 16-module, 2.2-megapixel ePix10k X-ray camera.
![SLAC’s Chris Kenney holds a 16-module](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/ePix-cleanroom-1600px.jpg?h=e6d55ad7&itok=tS6BZ9wx)
Last cryomodule unload, #41 from Fermilab F1.3-06. This one will be one of a few spares for LCLS-II.
![Last cryomodule unload, #41 from Fermilab F1.3-06. This one will be one of a few spares for LCLS-II.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/2021_0519_Last_Cryomodule_Delivery_Orrell-14.jpg?h=0152c0a0&itok=dceDAZc8)
Kayla Ninh at LCLS’s ChemRIX Hutch 2.2 in Near Experimental Hall.
![Kayla Ninh at LCLS’s ChemRIX Hutch 2.2 in Near Experimental Hall.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/2022_0503_RIX_Hutch_2.2_Orrell-6%20%281%29.jpg?h=93025742&itok=ozbzgT2C)
![Cryoplant flow animation](/sites/default/files/lclsII_cooldown_pr_sv_flow_anim_final.gif)
Illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity – a key component of SLAC’s future LCLS-II X-ray laser.
![illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity – a key component of SLAC’s future LCLS-II X-ray laser.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/LCLS-II%20Accelerator%20Cavity.jpg?h=42d864b6&itok=vxj7BAUj)
This illustration shows snapshots of the light-triggered transition of the ring-shaped 1,3-cyclohexadiene (CHD) molecule (background) to its stretched-out 1,3,5-hexatriene (HT) form (foreground).
![Molecular Movie in HD Art](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/nature_chemistry_artwork_wolf_final.jpg?h=1e194adf&itok=W0-ECeoU)
Diagram with icons depicting how X-ray studies, machine learning and lab work (left) were used to study electrode nanoparticles (center) for batteries used in...
![Studies of electrode nanoparticles for batteries.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/battery_dynamics_la_final.jpg?h=5a5fc591&itok=DTNsi9pF)
Illustration of an abrupt transition in the normal state of a cuprate
![Illustration of an abrupt transition in the normal state of a cuprate](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/science_cover_electron_density_chen_final_wide.jpg?h=a51a5cf9&itok=DoxQ9AI9)
Star trails take shape around the 14-story Mayall Telescope dome in this long-exposure image.
![Mayall Telescope Star Trails](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/Mayall-Star-Trails.jpg?h=f04160ef&itok=5KTmBkbu)