Ryan Coffee, scientist at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser, explains, “What is a femtosecond?”
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Researchers use powerful X-rays to reveal molecular structures at the site where drug compounds interact with cell receptors. These structures...
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The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), a directorate of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is an Office of Science User...
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The attoclock, illustrated here, can measure laser pulses that last billionths of a billionth of a second long.
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An illustration of electrolyte molecules arranging themselves into layers within a few nanometers of a battery electrode.
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SLAC associate staff scientist Thomas Joseph Lane at the Coherent X-Ray Imaging (CXI) instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source...
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Top: An optical microscope image of crystallized photolyase enzymes before they are probed by the LCLS X-ray laser. Bottom: An...
![Top: An optical microscope image of crystallized photolyase, Bottom: An X-ray diffraction pattern from the photolyase crystals.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/photolyase-combined.jpeg?h=404059e4&itok=b4aM1Vgy)
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An illustration shows nanocrystals assembling into an ordered ‘superlattice.’
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The SuperCDMS dark matter experiment will be located at the Canadian laboratory SNOLAB, 2 kilometers (6,800 feet) underground inside a...
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