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      Revealing nature’s fastest processes with X-rays, lasers and electrons

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      Studying the particles and forces that knit the cosmos together

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      Building smaller, faster, more powerful accelerators for all

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        Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests

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        Cryogenic Electron Microscopy

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Scientists from universities, laboratories and private companies around the world use our cutting-edge research facilities. Their discoveries benefit a wide range of fields, including...
SLAC’s Arianna Gleason speaks with advisors to Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouilette
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Researchers use synchrotron X-rays to identify promising candidate in the battle against antibiotic resistance

X-rays unveil new molecular structure details that will help researchers design novel drug therapies to address antibiotic resistant bacteria.

September 12, 2025  ·  4 min read
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Remote eyes on the sky: Inside SLAC’s Rubin control room

With survey operations set to begin this fall, the Rubin control room at SLAC will serve as a key hub for training and remote...

September 18, 2025  ·  5 min read
First Photons in the Rubin control room at SLAC

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X-ray & ultrafast science

With their ability to penetrate matter and resolve individual atoms, X-rays and electrons are among scientists’ most useful tools for determining the structure and behavior of molecules and materials.

First microscopic movies of liquids getting vaporized by SLAC’s X-ray free-electron laser LCLS.
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Peek Behind the Scenes at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource

During a recent shutdown, engineers installed new beamline technology and a 3-D virtual tour captured rare views of the synchrotron’s interior.

October 28, 2016  ·  1 min read
New in-vacuum undulator
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Ever-changing universe revealed in first imagery from NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory

The state-of-the-art ‘big-data facility’ unveils its first images and video, bringing the night sky to life like never before.

June 23, 2025  ·  11 min read
This image combines 678 separate images taken by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in just over seven hours of observing time. Combining many images in this way clearly reveals otherwise faint or invisible details, such as the clouds of gas and dust that comprise the Trifid nebula (top) and the Lagoon nebula, which are several thousand light-years away from Earth
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SLAC physics photowalk 2018

The SLAC Photowalk took a group of photographers, both amateur and professional, behind the scenes to photograph SLAC's world-class science facilities, including the world's longest linear accelerator, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL).

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Video | Upgraded X-ray laser science: freezing electron motion

After a major upgrade, SLAC's X-ray free-electron laser is 10,000 times brighter and thousands of times faster. Now, researchers are using LCLS to observe...

September 25, 2025  ·  1 min read
Detail of the TMO hutch at SLAC's X-ray laser

SSRL turns 50

On April 20, 2023 we celebrated 50 years of transformative science at SSRL. This unique event acknowledged many individuals who have made SSRL such a vital and impactful facility through partnerships among SSRL users and staff that fuel our success.

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SLAC’s 2026 Panofsky Fellow Ann Wang hunts for dark matter

Her work will advance a next-generation experiment in the hope of detecting this mysterious ingredient of the universe.

September 24, 2025  ·  3 min read
Portrait of Ann Wang
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