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A swap of metals and a mutation ramp up the electric field strength at the active site of an enzyme, making it ...

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To find the best possible shape for an accelerator component (left), researchers often have to tweak a number of factors...

A diagram shows a curvy gray shape before (left) and after its shape is optimized by trimming away a section shown in green. A chart at center shows blue and red lines converging on an ideal target value over a number of simulation runs.

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Disabling those hinges could be a good strategy for designing vaccines and treatments against a broad range of coronavirus infections.

A 3D image of a round, spiky coronavirus with inset showing how far its spikes can bend.

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Particle accelerators are used every day in a wide range of scientific, medical and industrial applications. But did you know that the task of...

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No human cell can function without these tiny machines, which cause disease when they go haywire and offer potential targets for therapeutic drugs.

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They found that gently heating N95 masks in high relative humidity could inactivate SARS-CoV-2 virus trapped within the masks, without degrading the masks’ performance.

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This animation shows an accelerator cavity whose design is being optimized with the help of a dashboard Kitware developed for use with SLAC’s ACE3P...

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As members of the lab’s Computer Science Division, they develop the tools needed to handle ginormous data volumes produced by the next generation of...

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Research associate Megan Mayer and graduate student Patrick Mitchell load a sample into a cryogenic electron microscope at SLAC.

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Analyzing X-ray movies with computer vision reveals how nanoparticles in a lithium-ion battery electrode work.

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Identifying each tiny chemical step in photosynthesis could aid the development of renewable energy technology.

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Revealing the Secrets of Transistors using Supercomputers

Stanford-SLAC study shows how modifying enzymes’ electric fields boosts their speed

SLAC’s ACE3P Software

How tiny hinges bend the infection-spreading spikes of a coronavirus

Super-Human Operator: Controlling Accelerators with Machine Learning

First detailed look at how a molecular Ferris wheel delivers protons to cellular factories

Faced with pandemic shortages, researchers combine heat and humidity to disinfect N95 masks for reuse

Kitware dashboard developed for use with SLAC’s ACE3P software

Q&A: Alan Heirich and Elliott Slaughter Take On SLAC’s Big Data Challenges

Cryogenic electron microscope (Cryo-EM)

‘Computer vision’ reveals unprecedented physical and chemical details of how a lithium-ion battery works

Capturing Molecular Motion using Artificial Intelligence

Photosystem-II