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SLAC joins new LaserNetUS network to boost high-intensity laser research

The initiative will give scientists more access to powerful lasers at universities and labs.

October 30, 2018  ·  3 min read
MEC LaserNet
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Scientists make first detailed measurements of key factors related to high-temperature superconductivity

Two studies led by SLAC and Stanford capture electron 'sound waves' and identify a positive feedback loop that may boost superconducting temperatures.

October 31, 2018  ·  6 min read
Illustration of study that reveals how coordinated motions of atoms boost superconductivity
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In materials hit with light, individual atoms and vibrations take disorderly paths

Revealed for the first time by a new X-ray laser technique, their surprisingly unruly response has profound implications for designing and controlling materials.

November 1, 2018  ·  7 min read
Illustration of laser light setting off vibrations in material
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Dancing atoms in perovskite materials provide insight into how solar cells work

A new study is a step forward in understanding why perovskite materials work so well in energy devices and potentially leads the way toward...

November 6, 2018  ·  5 min read
Scattered neutrons off perovskite material.
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Researchers create most complete high-res atomic movie of photosynthesis to date

In a major step forward, SLAC’s X-ray laser captures all four stable states of the process that produces the oxygen we breathe, as well...

November 7, 2018  ·  7 min read
Atomic movie
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X-rays show how periods of stress changed an ice age hyena to the bone

Researchers mapped trace elements within Pleistocene fossils to learn about the life of a long-extinct subspecies of spotted hyena.

November 13, 2018  ·  5 min read
Spotted hyena
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Gravitational lenses

Predicted by Einstein and discovered in 1979, gravitational lensing helps astrophysicists understand the evolving shape of the universe.

November 13, 2018
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The future of fighting cancer: zapping tumors in less than a second

SLAC and Stanford researchers secure support for two projects that share one goal: to reduce the side effects of radiation therapy by vastly shrinking...

November 28, 2018  ·  5 min read
Researchers at SLAC and Stanford are developing new accelerator-based technology that aims to speed up cancer radiation therapy.
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To curb maternal deaths in developing countries, researchers use X-rays to map a lifesaving drug in action

New research will help in the quest to design low-cost drugs that can tackle postpartum bleeding and other conditions without severe side effects.

December 3, 2018  ·  4 min read
Misoprostol and EP3 receptor
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

LHC ends second season of data-taking

During the last four years, LHC scientists have filled in gaps in our knowledge and tested the boundaries of the Standard Model.

December 3, 2018
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Theoretical physicist Shoucheng Zhang dies at 55

The SIMES researcher was a rare theorist who concerned himself with the implications of his abstract ideas about new quantum states of matter on...

December 6, 2018
Shoucheng Zhang
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Tangled magnetic fields power cosmic particle accelerators

SLAC scientists find a new way to explain how a black hole’s plasma jets boost particles to the highest energies observed in the universe...

December 13, 2018  ·  4 min read
Cosmic particle accelerators
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