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Lydia Young, SLAC’s chief engineer, helps students with an experiment at the lab’s SAGE-S summer camp, one of a number...
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A look inside SLAC’s FACET-II test facility, where scientists use electron beams to advance revolutionary technologies that could make future particle accelerators much smaller...
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Members of SLAC’s LZ team with the loom they used to weave high-voltage grids for the next-gen dark matter experiment.
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Visitors to SLAC tour the accelerator control room during Community Day 2019.
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Identifying each tiny chemical step in photosynthesis could aid the development of renewable energy technology.
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At LCLS, crystallized ribosomes travel through a capillary into the interaction region, where they are zapped with a beam of X-rays.
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Perovskites’ unusual response to light could explain the high efficiency of these next-generation solar cell materials.
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When light drives electron transfer in a molecular complex, the surrounding solvent molecules also rapidly move.
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Studies of atomic-level processes that drain battery life and efficiency help improve battery performance.
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X-ray laser pulses probe water droplets like these to discover water’s hidden (and sometimes bizarre) properties.
