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Public Lecture Poster

The Tug of War that Shapes the Universe poster

August 31, 2021
Public Lecture poster: picture of the universe
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LSST data illustration

The Rubin Observatory's LSST Camera will take enormously detailed images of the night sky from atop a mountain in Chile.

March 10, 2022
LSST data illustration
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LSST camera data acquisition system

The data acquisition system for the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera starts right at the back of the...
March 10, 2022
LSST data acquisition system
Public Lecture Poster

Photosynthesis: How Plants Build the Air we Breathe - Atom by Atom

November 1, 2021
Public Lecture poster: picture of movie
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Battery’s liquid electrolyte

A battery's liquid electrolyte clings to small holes in a cryo-EM sample holder. The electrolyte will be fast-frozen into a...
January 5, 2022
A battery's liquid electrolyte clings to small holes in a cryo-EM sample holder.
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Cryo-EM reconstructions of KIX

February 10, 2022
Red molecules are sandwiched between a blue inner shell and purple outer shell.
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Arrestin signaling protein

This illustration shows arrestin, an important type of signaling protein, while docked with rhodopsin, a G protein-coupled receptor.

September 22, 2022
This illustration shows arrestin, an important type of signaling protein
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SLAC's LSST Camera inside clean room

The LSST Camera is being tested inside the clean room at SLAC

September 22, 2022  ·  00:00:30  runtime
Front Page - LSST Camera
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Chitosanase crystals

Crystals of the soil virus AMG product (chitosanase) at 400x magnification. Individual crystals were cryo-cooled in liquid nitrogen before being...
August 12, 2022
Crystals of the soil virus AMG product (chitosanase) at 400x magnification.
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SARS-CoV-2 protein

This image shows the SARS-CoV-2 virus's main protease, Mpro, and two strands of a human protein, called NEMO.

September 8, 2022
SARS-CoV-2-NEMO
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SARS-CoV-2 Mpro

September 2, 2022
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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How krypton is removed from xenon gas

This animation shows how krypton (red) is removed from xenon gas (blue) by flowing the combined gases through a column...
September 14, 2022
A blue cloud with red spots travels downward, passing gray spots. As it does, the red spots move downward faster.
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