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Ultrafast Atomic Snapshots Reveal Energy Flow in Superconductor

A team including SLAC researchers has measured the intricate interactions between atomic nuclei and electrons that are key to understanding intriguing materials properties, such...

May 2, 2018  ·  3 min read
UED Setup
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Construction Begins on One of the World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Experiments

The SuperCDMS SNOLAB project, a multi-institutional effort led by SLAC, is expanding the hunt for dark matter to particles with properties not accessible to...

May 7, 2018  ·  6 min read
SuperCDMS Detector 2
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SLAC’s X-ray Laser Opens New View on Proteins Related to Alzheimer’s Disease

By placing the tiniest strands of proteins on one-atom-thick graphene, scientists capture promising X-ray laser images of these elusive biomolecules that play a key...

May 9, 2018  ·  6 min read
Illustration of amyloid fibrils on graphene
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Scientists Turn X-ray Laser Into World’s Fastest Water Heater

Experiments at SLAC heated water from room temperature to 100,000 degrees Celsius in less than a millionth of a millionth of a second, producing...

May 15, 2018  ·  4 min read
Illustration of water molecules hit by X-ray laser
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X-ray Laser Reveals Ultrafast Dance of Liquid Water

Water is more complicated than it seems. Now a study led by researchers at Stockholm University has probed the movements of its molecules on...

May 16, 2018  ·  3 min read
Illustration showing blurring of images of water molecules made with X-ray laser
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SLAC Will Open One of Three NIH National Service Centers for Cryo-Electron Microscopy

The National Institutes of Health center on the SLAC campus will make this revolutionary technology available to scientists nationwide and teach them how to...

May 15, 2018  ·  4 min read
Cryo-EM image of a proton pump involved in maintaining bone
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Game-Changing Neutrino Experiments

This neutrino-watchers season preview will give you the rundown on what to expect to come out of neutrino research in the coming years.

May 24, 2018
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X-Ray Laser Scientists Develop a New Way to Watch Bacteria Attack Antibiotics

The researchers observed how an enzyme from drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria damages an antibiotic molecule. The new technique provides a powerful tool to examine changes...

May 31, 2018  ·  5 min read
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Theorists love giant equations (even more than coffee)

SLAC theorist Lance Dixon and collaborators have calculated the formula for the energy-energy correlation (EEC) with more precision than ever before. Formulas like the...

June 5, 2018
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Work Begins on New SLAC Facility for Revolutionary Accelerator Science

The goal: develop plasma technologies that could shrink future accelerators up to 1,000 times, potentially paving the way for next-generation particle colliders and powerful...

June 11, 2018  ·  5 min read
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Perspectives on 10 Years of Discovery With Fermi

By capturing the most energetic light in the sky, the spacecraft continues to teach us about the mysteries of the universe.

June 11, 2018  ·  3 min read
Fermi scientists Michelson, Atwood and Ritz
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Scientists Make the First Molecular Movie of One of Nature’s Most Widely Used Light Sensors

The X-ray laser movie shows what happens when light hits retinal, a key part of vision in animals and photosynthesis in microbes. The action...

June 14, 2018  ·  5 min read
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