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SLAC X-rays Resurrect 200-year-old Opera

At first glance the beautifully bound 1797 Luigi Cherubini opera Médée looks like an impeccably preserved relic of opera's golden age. However, flip to...

June 10, 2013  ·  4 min read
Image - Thick smudges black out parts of an aria from Luigi Cherubini's 1797 opera "Medee." (Courtesy Uwe Bergmann)
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Power Plants: Scientists Use X-ray Laser to Probe Engines of Photosynthesis

The molecular power plants that carry out photosynthesis are at the root of a scientific quest to learn how they channel energy from sunlight...

June 6, 2012  ·  3 min read
Photosystem II Molecular Cluster
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SIMES Materials Scientist Wins Young Scientist Award

SLAC and Stanford materials science professor William Chueh has won a $5,000 Young Scientist Award from the International Society of Solid-State Ionics (ISSI).

June 27, 2013  ·  1 min read
Photo - William Chueh (Matt Beardsley)
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SLAC Engages Youth, Families at 2012 USA Science & Engineering Festival

With more than 150,000 participants, the second annual USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C., may have been the largest celebration of Science...

May 7, 2012  ·  2 min read
SLAC at 2012 Science and Engineering Festival
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Proteins Better Analyzed at Room Temperature, Report Finds

Proteins are jittery things – continually moving, flopping around and waving their molecular arms.

September 13, 2011  ·  3 min read
a protein ensemble
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Speed Limit Set for Ultrafast Electrical Switch

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have clocked the fastest-possible electrical switching in magnetite, a naturally magnetic mineral...

July 28, 2013  ·  3 min read
Artists concept shows laser hitting atomic structure and breaking it
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Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford Physicist and SIMES Scientist, Honored by American Physical Society

Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford Physicist and SIMES Scientist, Honored by American Physical Society

October 13, 2011  ·  3 min read
Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford Physicist and SIMES Scientist
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Bendable Crystals Resolve Properties of X-ray Pulses

A frustrating flaw in a set of custom crystals for an instrument at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory inspired a solution for an important scientific...

September 12, 2012  ·  4 min read
Yiping Feng examines a chamber at LCLS' Front End Enclosure
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X-ray Laser Probes Biomolecules to Individual Atoms

An international team led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has proved how the world's most powerful X-ray laser...

June 1, 2012  ·  3 min read
a lysozyme structural model against its X-ray diffraction pattern
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Director of Accelerator Directorate Discusses Blogging

from CERN Courier

May 7, 2012  ·  1 min read
Norbert Holtkamp
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Obama Honors Burton Richter with Prestigious Enrico Fermi Award

President Obama has named SLAC director emeritus and Nobel laureate Burton Richter as one of two winners of the Enrico Fermi Award, one of...

January 12, 2012  ·  1 min read
Burton Richter
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Laser Mashup: Researchers Mix X-ray, Optical Beams to Create Atomic Gauge

In a paper published Aug. 30 in Nature, an international team of researchers working at the Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC National Accelerator...

August 30, 2012  ·  3 min read
Experiment Mixes X-ray, Optical Laser Light
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