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Seeing is Exploding: Snapping Biological Images with X-ray Laser Blasts

Public lecture presented by Sebastien Boutet

May 21, 2019  ·  01:06:55  runtime
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Cooking Gold to Design Tougher Materials

This video explains how researchers at SLAC are using a method known as ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) to develop an atomic-level understanding of how...

July 6, 2018  ·  00:02:38  runtime
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Liquid Diamonds: New Materials at Pressures of the Earth’s Core

Public lecture presented by Emma McBride

November 27, 2018  ·  01:03:26  runtime
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Discovering the Colors of Fossil Creatures

Public lecture presented by Nick Edwards

May 26, 2020  ·  01:06:12  runtime
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Making a molecular movie: how it works

This video explains the basics of how scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory use powerful X-rays from the Linac Coherent Light Source to make...
September 1, 2019  ·  00:01:01  runtime
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SLAC joins the global fight against COVID-19

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is responding to the coronavirus crisis by imaging disease-related biomolecules, developing standards for reliable coronavirus testing and enabling other essential...
August 16, 2020  ·  00:02:10  runtime
SLAC joins the global fight against COVID-19
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SSRL X-Ray Crystallography Covid-19 Research

Jeney Wierman, a staff scientist at SLAC, explains how SSRL tools are contributing to COVID-19 research.
July 30, 2020  ·  00:03:07  runtime
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All About SLAC: What Goes On In the World's Longest Building

Public lecture presented by Neil Calder

February 24, 2004  ·  01:12:12  runtime
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Sunrise timelapse of SSRL

Sunrise timelapse of SSRL (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource)

September 22, 2022
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Getting LCLS-II to 2 kelvins

LCLS-II’s Eric Fauve explains how the team cools the accelerator to 2 kelvins. 

August 31, 2022  ·  00:04:02  runtime
Cooling SLAC's linear accelerator to 2 kelvins
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Amedeo Perazzo on Data Management at LCLS

June 5, 2013  ·  00:00:58  runtime
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Synchrotron explainer

Watch this video for a simple explanation of what a synchrotron is and why there are 60 around the world today.

September 28, 2022  ·  00:03:54  runtime
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