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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...
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A half-mile-long stretch of tunnel in Menlo Park, California is now colder than most of the universe.
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A muon, center, spins like a top within the atomic lattice of a thin film of superconducting nickelate.
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The Laser Science and Technology (LST) division of the LCLS provides operational support for laser systems used in the LCLS...
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Illustration from SLAC Public Lecture Improving batteries from the atoms up.
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SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Near Experimental Hall building at sunrise with Stanford University Hoover Tower in the background.
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At LCLS, crystallized ribosomes travel through a capillary into the interaction region, where they are zapped with a beam of X-rays.
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Perovskites’ unusual response to light could explain the high efficiency of these next-generation solar cell materials.
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When light drives electron transfer in a molecular complex, the surrounding solvent molecules also rapidly move.