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Cryo-EM and SSRL training workshop at SLAC.

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The results of a new scientific study reveal how photosynthetic reaction centers adapt to make light-driven reactions more efficient.

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SLAC staff scientist Alexander Reid

$SLAC staff scientist Alexander Reid, the first user of the lab's instrument for ultrafast electron diffraction (MeV-UED).$

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Its electron beams will drive the generation of up to a million ultrabright X-ray flashes per second.

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This animation shows the results of a recent study at SLAC, in which researchers used a powerful beam of electrons to watch gold melt...

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Illustration of how a single crystal sample of silicon deforms during shock compression on nanosecond timescales.

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With up to a million X-ray flashes per second, 8,000 times more than its predecessor, it transforms the ability of scientists to explore atomic-scale...

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Public lecture presented by Daniel Ratner

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Scientists at Stanford and NYU have published and investigated a new structure of the protein LAG-3 which could enable the development of new cancer...

Three people in lab coats examine chemistry equipment.

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SSRL utilizes x-rays produced by its accelerator, the Stanford Positron Electron Asymmetric Ring (SPEAR3), shown in this photo from 2004.

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Presented by Kelly Gaffney. Movies have transformed our perception of the world. With slow motion photography, we can see a hummingbird flap its wings...

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Public lecture presented by Gregory Loew

Who we are

SLAC science explained

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST

Careers at SLAC

Revealing the Secrets of Transistors using Supercomputers

Cryo-EM and SSRL workshop

Shapeshifting proteins provide electrons safe passage during photosynthesis

MeV-UED first user

SLAC fires up electron gun for LCLS-II X-ray laser upgrade

UED gold melting

MEC silicon

SLAC fires up the world’s most powerful X-ray laser: LCLS-II ushers in a new era of science

ZAP! The X-Ray Laser is Born

A newly published protein structure helps explain how some anti-cancer immunotherapy treatments work

A View Inside SLAC's SPEAR3 Tunnel

Making Molecular Movies: 10,000,000,000,000 Frames per Second

Big Machines and Big Science: 80 Years of Accelerators at Stanford