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SSRL Helps Stanford Scientists Study Enhanced Organic Semiconductor

Organic semiconductors could usher in an era of foldable smartphones, better high-definition television screens and clothing made of materials that can harvest energy from...

January 3, 2012  ·  3 min read
 the formation of organic crystals
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BaBar Searches for New Physics in Invisible Decays

Scientists analyzing data from theScientists analyzing data from the BaBar experiment, which operated at SLAC between 1999 and 2008, recently published the results of...

January 31, 2013  ·  2 min read
Image - Cartoon elephant BaBar vanishing in suit.
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Synchrotrons Play Role in Nobel Prize Research

Synchrotrons played a key role in the research that won Brian Kobilka, a professor and chair of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at the Stanford...

October 12, 2012  ·  4 min read
Image - Graphic illustration of tangled spiral protein signaling complex
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Seen Around SLAC: Fermi Telescope Model Flies Over Kavli Lobby

A half-sized Fermi space telescope model, originally launched from SLAC's booth at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, last...

October 26, 2011  ·  1 min read
Tofigh Azemoon sitting in front of Fermi telescope model hung in Kavli. Tofigh Azemoon with his half-sized model of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
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Soichi Wakatsuki Joins SLAC Faculty

One of SLAC’s newest faculty members, Soichi Wakatsuki, says it was not any one thing that drew him here to help build and lead...

January 22, 2013  ·  4 min read
Photo - Portrait of Soichi Wakatsuki
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Annual Science Bowl at SLAC a Launch Pad for National Competition

More than 100 science students from 20 Bay Area high schools converged on the lab Saturday to compete in the annual Science Bowl competition...

February 14, 2012  ·  2 min read
Three local high-school students at  the annual Science Bowl at SLAC
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SLAC Physicist Explores Parallel Universes Sunday Night on Discovery Channel

Are parallel universes real?

September 1, 2011  ·  2 min read
Making of "Through the Wormhole" (Photo by Melinda Lee.)
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Synchrotrons Explore Water's Molecular Mysteries

In experiments at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, scientists observed a surprisingly dense form of water that remained liquid well...

January 31, 2013  ·  2 min read
Photo - Deep blue water rippling.
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Giant Virus, Tiny Protein Crystals Show X-ray Laser's Power and Potential

Two studies to be published February 3 in Nature demonstrate how the unique capabilities of the world’s first hard X-ray free-electron laser—the Linac Coherent...

February 3, 2011  ·  8 min read
Mimivirus X-ray Diffraction Pattern
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SLAC Welcomes Displaced Japanese Scientists

The synchrotron light source community is a large one – about 70 facilities exist around the world – but the men and women who...

July 21, 2011  ·  2 min read
Japanese researchers at Beamline 4-2 (Photo by Lori Ann White.)
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Man-made Material Shows Surprisingly Magnetic Personality

Scientists from SLAC and Stanford have used finely tuned X-rays at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) to pin down the source of a...

June 7, 2013  ·  3 min read
Image - Artist's conception of titanium atom revealing magnetic properties. (Greg Stewart/SLAC)
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Taking Some Guesswork Out of High-Energy Physics

SLAC theorist Stan Brodsky and his collaborator Xing-Gang Wu of Chongqing University have just made the lives

August 6, 2012  ·  2 min read
Theoretical Physicists Xing-Gang Wu and Stan Brodsky
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