Research associate Megan Mayer and graduate student Patrick Mitchell load a sample into a cryogenic electron microscope at SLAC.
![Research associate Megan Mayer and graduate student Patrick Mitchell load a sample into a cryogenic electron microscope at SLAC.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-02/2018_0412_Cryo-EM-122_v2.jpg?h=2992ba0a&itok=aQiLru9h)
LCLS Undulator Hall with both soft X-ray undulators, left, and hard X-ray undulators, right.
![Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Undulator Hall](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/2020_0306_Empty_Undulator_Hall_Gamazo-7476.jpg?h=dc9ff8c2&itok=dQtMVATy)
Identifying each tiny chemical step in photosynthesis could aid the development of renewable energy technology.
![Identifying each tiny chemical step in photosynthesis could aid the development of renewable energy technology.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/photosystem-II_cover_pnas_bergmann_final-1400x768.jpg?h=6467ba0c&itok=7m3M7ino)
A look inside SLAC’s FACET-II test facility, where scientists use electron beams to advance revolutionary technologies that could make future particle accelerators much smaller...
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This illustration shows arrestin, an important type of signaling protein, while docked with rhodopsin, a G protein-coupled receptor.
![This illustration shows arrestin, an important type of signaling protein](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/cover_artwork_qingping_final.jpg?h=d20b3caa&itok=emMjsppL)
This image shows the SARS-CoV-2 virus's main protease, Mpro, and two strands of a human protein, called NEMO.
![SARS-CoV-2-NEMO](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/sars_cov2_story_la_v04.jpg?h=4e7703cc&itok=C7AunqIP)
Last cryomodule unload, #41 from Fermilab F1.3-06. This one will be one of a few spares for LCLS-II.
![Last cryomodule unload, #41 from Fermilab F1.3-06. This one will be one of a few spares for LCLS-II.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/2021_0519_Last_Cryomodule_Delivery_Orrell-14.jpg?h=0152c0a0&itok=dceDAZc8)
Kayla Ninh at LCLS’s ChemRIX Hutch 2.2 in Near Experimental Hall.
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Illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity – a key component of SLAC’s future LCLS-II X-ray laser.
![illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity – a key component of SLAC’s future LCLS-II X-ray laser.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/LCLS-II%20Accelerator%20Cavity.jpg?h=42d864b6&itok=vxj7BAUj)
Researchers will use FACET-II to develop the plasma wakefield acceleration method, in which researchers send a bunch of very energetic particles through a hot...
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The nanoscale patterns of SLAC and Stanford’s accelerator on a chip gleam in rainbow colors prior to being assembled and cut into their final...
![Photo of an array of accelerator chips on a disc](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/images/130927-chiparray-990w.jpg?h=91b8c1c6&itok=x_hDUHq7)
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