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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)

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Stanford’s Roger Kornberg received the 2006 chemistry Nobel for work on RNA transcriptase, shown on screens.

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A battery's liquid electrolyte clings to small holes in a cryo-EM sample holder. The electrolyte will be fast-frozen into a...

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Red molecules are sandwiched between a blue inner shell and purple outer shell.

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Drone photo of the team working on LCLS-II cryoplant.

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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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Presented by Franklin Fuller. Over billions of years, plants and cyanobacteria changed the Earth’s atmosphere by inhaling carbon dioxide, storing the carbon in solid...

Scientific facility

SSRL produces extremely bright X-ray light for probing our world at the atomic and molecular level. More than 1,600 scientists from all over the world use it each year for research that spurs advances in medicine, energy production, environmental cleanup...

Using X-rays from SSRL, Chuntian Cao maps silicon as it cycles within a battery.

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The Stanford Board of Trustees held its first meeting of the 2022-23 academic year Oct. 17-18. Trustees toured the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and...

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Bagde is being recognized for his successful efforts to describe the structures and mechanisms of several biologically important enzymes.

A man wearing a yellow shirt smiles at the camera.

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Once built, the system could produce fast X-ray pulses ten times more powerful than ever before.

Who we are

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NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST

Careers at SLAC

Revealing the Secrets of Transistors using Supercomputers

SARS-CoV-2 Mpro

Roger Kornberg

Battery’s liquid electrolyte

Cryo-EM reconstructions of KIX

Cryoplant team

Amedeo Perazzo on Data Management at LCLS

LCLS laser lab

Photosynthesis: How Plants Build the Air We Breathe – Atom by Atom

Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL)

‘Real-world impact’: Stanford Board of Trustees learns how SLAC can change the future

Saket Bagde wins 2022 Spicer Young Investigator Award for deciphering how nature produces some antibiotics

Researchers adapt a Nobel Prize-winning method to design new, ultra-powerful X-ray systems