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Designer Glue Improves Lithium-ion Battery Life

When it comes to improving the performance of lithium-ion batteries, no part should be overlooked – not even the glue that binds materials together...

August 19, 2013  ·  2 min read
Image -  A new binder material forms a fine-grained (top) lithium sulfide/carbon composite cathode, compared with the large clumps (bottom) that form when another common binder is used.
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'Architect' of SLAC's Linear Accelerator Remembered

Richard "Dick" Barr Neal, a key figure in the design, construction and operation of SLAC's 2-mile-long linear accelerator, died Nov. 22, 2012 in Solana...

November 28, 2012  ·  4 min read
Photo - Archival photo of excited scientists in linac control room.
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'Beam Sharing': Two Experiments with One X-ray Laser

Blue-glowing diamond crystals hold promise for expanding the research capacity of SLAC's X-ray laser by divvying up its pulses for use in separate, simultaneous...

March 12, 2013  ·  3 min read
Image - A superthin diamond glows blue during a beam-sharing experiment at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser. (Credit: Diling Zhu, SLAC)
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Rapid Beam-switching Allows SLAC X-ray Laser to Multitask

A high-energy SLAC laser that creates shock waves and superhot plasmas needs to cool for about 10 minutes between shots. In the meantime, the...

August 9, 2013  ·  3 min read
Photo - This equipment is used to quickly move a mirror in or out of the path of X-rays at LCLS to switch them to different experiments. (Matt Beardsley)
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Jonathan Rivnay Wins 2011 Klein Award

Jonathan Rivnay, a Stanford graduate student in materials science who has conducted significant research at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource on the relationships between...

August 16, 2011  ·  2 min read
2011 Klein Award Winner Jonathan Rivnay (Photo by Mike Ross.)
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Pledges of Support Keep Mideast SESAME Project on Track

The latest report on SESAME, a synchrotron light source that will be the first big international science center in the Middle East, says it...

June 20, 2011  ·  4 min read
The SESAME Facility (Photo courtesy SESAME.)
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Using Light to Switch Off Magnetism

One way to make magnetic storage drives faster would be to use light to flip the polarity of tiny patches of material, called magnetic...

October 25, 2012  ·  1 min read
Image - Maze-like magnetic structure imaged by magnetic-force microscope
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Panofsky Prize Honors Researchers' Underground Hunt for Dark Matter

The search for dark matter runs deep with physicists Blas Cabrera and Bernard Sadoulet, who have chased this mystery far underground and will be...

October 2, 2012  ·  4 min read
Side by side photos of Blas Cabrera and Bernard Sadoulet
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The Decades-long Search for the Higgs

It was a little over two years ago that the Large Hadron Collider kicked off its search for the Higgs boson.

July 5, 2012  ·  5 min read
The fundamental particles of the Standard Model
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New Report Lays Out What Kids Should Know About Science

Theoretical physicist and SLAC Professor Emeritus Helen Quinn chaired a National Academy of Sciences committee that last week issued A Framework for K-12 Science...

July 28, 2011  ·  10 min read
SLAC Professor Emeritus Helen Quinn (Photo courtesy Helen Quinn.)
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The Universe Through Fermi's Eyes

On June 11, 2008, what was then the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope rode a Delta II rocket into low-Earth orbit. After two months...

August 22, 2013  ·  5 min read
Photo - The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope launches June 11, 2008
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Designing Chemical Catalysts: There's an App for That

A big reason for publishing scientific results is to inform others who can then use your data and conclusions to make additional discoveries, technologies...

January 19, 2012  ·  3 min read
Jens Hummelshøj shows off CatApp
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