Marc Messerschmidt, a staff scientist at the Coherent X-ray Imaging (CXI) experimental station at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser, describes his daily...
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This movie introduces LCLS-II, a future light source at SLAC. It will generate over 8,000 times more light pulses per second than today’s most...
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Researchers use powerful X-rays to reveal molecular structures at the site where drug compounds interact with cell receptors. These structures...
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The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), a directorate of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is an Office of Science User...
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Ryan Coffee, scientist at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser, explains, “What is a femtosecond?”
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SLAC associate staff scientist Thomas Joseph Lane at the Coherent X-Ray Imaging (CXI) instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source...
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An illustration shows nanocrystals assembling into an ordered ‘superlattice.’
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An artist’s depiction of a tiny pore in the crystalline shell of an ammonia-eating archaea microbe; surrounding proteins are shown...
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Cornelius Gati and other researchers were studying a protein thought to be important for the progression of tuberculosis when they made a strange discovery...
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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is responding to the coronavirus crisis by imaging disease-related biomolecules, developing standards for reliable coronavirus testing and enabling other essential...
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