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 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)
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)
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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A half-mile-long stretch of tunnel in Menlo Park, California is now colder than most of the universe.
![LCLS-II cooldown](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/lclsII_cooldown_pr_la_final.jpg?h=5a5fc591&itok=CDVMK27F)
![Cryoplant flow animation](/sites/default/files/lclsII_cooldown_pr_sv_flow_anim_final.gif)
This illustration shows snapshots of the light-triggered transition of the ring-shaped 1,3-cyclohexadiene (CHD) molecule (background) to its stretched-out 1,3,5-hexatriene (HT) form (foreground).
![Molecular Movie in HD Art](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/nature_chemistry_artwork_wolf_final.jpg?h=1e194adf&itok=W0-ECeoU)