KIPAC scientists have for the first time used artificial neural networks to analyze complex distortions in spacetime, called gravitational lenses, demonstrating that the method...
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This illustration shows how an ultrabright X-ray laser pulse vaporizes part of a liquid jet, creating umbrella-shaped films of liquid and sending shock waves...
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Researchers will use FACET-II to develop the plasma wakefield acceleration method, in which researchers send a bunch of very energetic particles through a hot...
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An animation shows how an infrared laser beam (orange) triggers atomic vibrations in a thin layer of iron selenide, which are then recorded by...
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![A cutaway depicts the interior of Neptune (right) and an illustration of diamond rain (left).](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/images/diamond_rain_kraus_final.jpg?h=d485c6f1&itok=XTa-N-_H)
![Illustration from SLAC Public Lecture series titled Improving batteries from the atoms up.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/public_lecture_feb2021_backgroundimage.jpg?h=1bede6ae&itok=7pG0xzDQ)
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The nanoscale patterns of SLAC and Stanford’s accelerator on a chip gleam in rainbow colors prior to being assembled and cut into their final...
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A view of a chamber inside the LAMP instrument during its installation at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser.
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X-ray laser pulses probe water droplets like these to discover water’s hidden (and sometimes bizarre) properties.
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Studies of atomic-level processes that drain battery life and efficiency help improve battery performance.
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