Accelerators form the backbone of SLAC's national user facilities. They are complicated machines, with hundreds of thousands of components that all need to be designed, engineered, operated and maintained to achieve the highest energy acceleration and the highest quality particle...

The technology could save the lives of COVID-19 patients when more advanced ventilators are too expensive or not available.

Researchers with the Doudna group used SSRL to uncover how viruses use special enzymes to evade a host's defenses. 

NLCTA staff helped undergraduates from Harvey Mudd College use the facility’s electron beam to test a detector they designed. 

Derek Mendez and Xueli “Sherry” Zheng aim to accelerate drug discovery and improve energy storage.

SLAC scientists develop an approach to better guide the preparation of cell slices for cryogenic-electron tomography imaging.

The research sheds light on how a key regulator of inflammation forms, which could help guide new therapeutic approaches to inflammatory diseases.