![How Science Unlocks Copper's Hidden Powers](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/public_lecture_11_10_2020_title_only.jpg?h=98fc02fa&itok=Nzob_U8y)
Illustration
Klystrons are microwave generators. The klystrons used at SLAC are cousins to the microwave generators that heat up food in your microwave oven.
![Klystron poster](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/klystron_alcove_poster_final_high_res.jpg?h=ca200347&itok=RB3GaCJw)
![FACET laser lab](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/FACET%20Laser%20Lab%20%282013_204_4733_FACET-LASER%29.jpg?h=1ae6bda6&itok=-xHyLvMN)
Photograph
Jeney Wierman stands in the control room of SSRL. She, along with other members of the Structural Molecular Biology team...
![Jeney Wierman of SLAC’s Structural Molecular Biology team](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/2020_0522_Stage_Zero_SSRL_McCulloch-5.jpg?h=6751341c&itok=wIfbBM1l)
Photograph
Crystals of the soil virus AMG product (chitosanase) at 400x magnification. Individual crystals were cryo-cooled in liquid nitrogen before being...
![Crystals of the soil virus AMG product (chitosanase) at 400x magnification.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/chitosanase_crystals.jpg?h=ef987c94&itok=8RoQVN9y)
![an array of rainbow-tinted views of a tiny 3D object that spells "DOE"](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/magis_100_story_visuals_la_v01.jpg?h=5a5fc591&itok=o7Dm3mMi)
![Against a black background, thin, glowing red wires at top impinge on the hexagonal surface of a translucent mass. Small white dots travel along the edges of the surface in two directions. Within the mass, two orange cones meet at their tips.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/probing_topological_high_harmonics_artwork_la_final.jpg?h=5a5fc591&itok=NawlRLkX)
![Images of frost and a thermometer superimposed over an aerial view of an accelerator building.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/lclsII_2k_cooldown_la_final.jpg?h=5a5fc591&itok=dpFqkhYx)
Illustration
A cross section of the LCLS-II accelerator showing where liquid and gaseous helium flow in and out of the system.
![Cross section showing pipes and liquid and gas helium](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/lclsII_2k_cooldown_sv_cryomodule_final.jpg?h=0cd817c1&itok=YxvqtfF8)
![This image shows how SARS-CoV-2 Mpro recognizes and cuts NEMO based on the crystal structure determined using a powerful X-ray beam at SSRL Beam Line 12-2. (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/molecularstructureSARSNEMO.jpg?h=da114dbf&itok=E6dpiK24)
Photograph
Xenon purification system at SLAC. The two central columns are each filled with almost half a ton of charcoal, which is used to produce...
![A collection of pipes, towers, and other equipment](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/LZ%20xenon%20purification.jpg?h=ffe74083&itok=HN54089-)
Animation
This animation shows how krypton (red) is removed from xenon gas (blue) by flowing the combined gases through a column...
![A blue cloud with red spots travels downward, passing gray spots. As it does, the red spots move downward faster.](/sites/default/files/xenon_removal_forfeature_v02.gif)