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We explore radically new ideas with an entrepreneurial mindset.
Get an overview of research at SLAC: X-ray and ultrafast science, particle and astrophysics, cosmology, particle accelerators, biology, energy and technology.
Revealing nature’s fastest processes with X-rays, lasers and electrons
Studying the particles and forces that knit the cosmos together
Building smaller, faster, more powerful accelerators for all
Understanding the machinery of life at its most basic level
Inventing new tools for science and society
Breaking new ground in securing abundant, affordable and reliable energy.
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Learn more about the places where science happens at SLAC: our major facilities, institutes and centers.
Linac Coherent Light Source
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests
Cryogenic Electron Microscopy
Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Science
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology
Stanford PULSE Institute
Center for Interface Science & Catalysis
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST
SLAC & Stanford build the world’s largest digital camera for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
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This joint publication of SLAC and Fermilab is your view into the world of particle physics.
Blazing the path to a fusion future
Thursday, October 8, 7:00 p.m.
SLAC celebrates five days of ultrafast science.
~ Q&A series with SLAC scientists ~
Join us for five days of ultrafast science from April 17 to 21.
Read about how SLAC professor Siegfried Glenzer creates extreme conditions like those in the cores of planets and studies nuclear fusion.
Accelerator physicist Agostino Marinelli discusses how SLAC's X-ray laser makes femtosecond light.
Explore the fourth dimension, from processes that occur in billions of years down to tiny slivers of a second.
Physicist Phil Bucksbaum gives a brief introduction to Femtosecond Week at SLAC.
Take a digital tour of the undulators and near experimental hall at the Linac Coherent Light Source.
Researchers from the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center join USC in a project to help secure the U.S. supply of critical minerals.