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...
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Machinist Pete Franco, inside the machine shop of the Light Fabrication building 025 at SLAC.
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Klystrons are microwave generators. The klystrons used at SLAC are cousins to the microwave generators that heat up food in your microwave oven.
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Sander Breur from SLAC’s EXO neutrino research group, describes the acute shortage ventilator project.
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Jeney Wierman, a staff scientist at SLAC, explains how SSRL tools are contributing to COVID-19 research.
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Jeney Wierman stands in the control room of SSRL. She, along with other members of the Structural Molecular Biology team...
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Crystals of the soil virus AMG product (chitosanase) at 400x magnification. Individual crystals were cryo-cooled in liquid nitrogen before being...
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