![A protein molecule with intertwined spirals around a small yellow center form.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/large.jpg?h=2bec67c3&itok=uCmrdvaW)
Catching up to Electrons on the Move
![Taran Driver Public Lecture poster](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-05/public_lecture_05_2023_poster_800x1236.jpg?h=01cfded6&itok=mBqe5akU)
The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera’s focal plane has a surface area large enough to capture a portion of the sky...
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The first of 37 cryomodules for LCLS-II is moved off of its truck after being shipped from Fermilab. All the cryomodules were delivered...
![Cryomodule lifted from truck](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/49996376711_168c03d269_3k.jpg?h=790075fd&itok=HawlG7PG)
Identifying each tiny chemical step in photosynthesis could aid the development of renewable energy technology.
![Identifying each tiny chemical step in photosynthesis could aid the development of renewable energy technology.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/photosystem-II_cover_pnas_bergmann_final-1400x768.jpg?h=6467ba0c&itok=7m3M7ino)
By detecting minute traces of original pigments in fossils, X-ray imaging at synchrotrons has given scientists the chemical evidence needed to discover the actual...
![X-ray imaging at synchrotrons has given scientists the chemical evidence needed to discover the actual colors of ancient life forms.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/public_lecture_june2020_edwards_03_notitle.jpg?h=98fc02fa&itok=xSCAGre1)
The ultrafast, ultrabright X-ray pulses of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) have enabled unprecedented views of a catalyst in action, an important step...
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SSRL’s X-rays uncovered a 6th century translation of a book by the Greek-Roman doctor Galen, allowing the hidden text to be read for the...
![X-ray of ancient medical manuscript at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL).](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/X-ray%20of%20ancient%20medical%20manuscript.jpg?h=8f9a6c95&itok=IPWvWrKH)
This illustration shows arrestin, an important type of signaling protein, while docked with rhodopsin, a G protein-coupled receptor.
![This illustration shows arrestin, an important type of signaling protein](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/cover_artwork_qingping_final.jpg?h=d20b3caa&itok=emMjsppL)
Roberto Alonso Mori (right) and Dimosthenis Sokaras work on a spectrometer at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource.
![A spectrometer at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/2012_040_2317_SPECTROMETER-copy.jpg?h=34b8fd95&itok=oAPycK8u)
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