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Building a Better Battery for Renewable Energy Storage

Solar, wind and other renewable energy sources reduce consumption of fossil fuels but also pose challenges to the electrical grid because their power generation...

October 25, 2012  ·  2 min read
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Underground Search for Neutrino Properties Unveils First Results

Scientists studying neutrinos have found with the highest degree of sensitivity yet that these mysterious particles behave like other elementary particles at the quantum...

June 4, 2012  ·  2 min read
EXO-200 in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
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20th Anniversary of a Great Idea: Building the LCLS at SLAC

The spectacular success of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world’s first hard X-ray free-electron laser, has put SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at...

February 23, 2012  ·  5 min read
A 1993 diagram showing the proposed layout of the Linac Coherent Light Source
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Will the Real Higgs Boson Please Stand Up?

Although physicists from two experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider and from Fermilab’s Tevatron collider recently reported at the Europhysics Conference on High Energy...

August 9, 2011  ·  4 min read
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BaBar Data Preserved in 'Computational Cocoon' for Future Analysis

More than eight years worth of pristine particle physics data will remain available for analysis or re-analysis at least until 2018, now that BaBar's...

May 14, 2012  ·  2 min read
BaBar Computing Coordinator Tina Cartaro
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Hydrogen Fuel Tech Gets Boost from Low-Cost, Efficient Catalyst

Scientists have engineered a cheap, abundant alternative to the expensive platinum catalyst and coupled it with a light-absorbing electrode to make hydrogen fuel from...

May 2, 2011  ·  3 min read
Tiny Silicon Pillars
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New Tool to Measure X-ray Pulses Borrows from SLAC History

A tool developed half a century ago for sorting subatomic particles has been redesigned to measure X-ray laser pulses at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light...

June 25, 2013  ·  4 min read
Patrick Krejcik and Yuantao Ding, a staff scientist and lead researcher on the XTCAV project
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SSRL Team Reports Sought-After Magnetic Properties in Common Alloy

In a paper published Nov. 2 in Nature Communications, a team of researchers led by University of Maryland's Ichiro Takeuchi, in collaboration with Stanford...

November 3, 2011  ·  1 min read
Apurva Mehta, SSRL Staff Scientist
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Scientists Use LCLS to See Photovoltaic Process in Action

A surprising atomic-scale wiggle underlies the way a special class of materials reacts to light, according to research that may lead to new devices...

February 28, 2012  ·  2 min read
artist's conception depicts the sudden contraction and elongation experienced by the unit cell of the ferroelectric material lead titanate as an intense pulse of violet light hits it
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SLAC Scientists Study How Nature Cleans Uranium from Colorado Aquifer

Rifle, Colorado, is a small town on the Colorado River, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, that's big on natural resources.

January 10, 2012  ·  4 min read
SSRL beamline scientist John Bargar near Beamline 11-2
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Exploring Middle Ground of Solids and Liquids

In experiments at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser, researchers made snapshots of atomic-scale fluctuations in liquids and glasses.

November 15, 2012  ·  2 min read
Photo - Gallium crystals
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X-ray Laser Helps Fight Sleeping Sickness

Menlo Park, Calif. — An international group of scientists working at the Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has mapped a weak...

November 29, 2012  ·  3 min read
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