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    • X-ray and Ultrafast science icon X-ray & ultrafast science

      Revealing nature’s fastest processes with X-rays, lasers and electrons

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      Studying the particles and forces that knit the cosmos together

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      Building smaller, faster, more powerful accelerators for all

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      Understanding the machinery of life at its most basic level

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        Linac Coherent Light Source

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        Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource

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        Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests

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        Cryogenic Electron Microscopy

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        Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Science

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        Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology

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        Stanford PULSE Institute

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        Center for Interface Science & Catalysis

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    NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST

    SLAC & Stanford build the world’s largest digital camera for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).

    A drone photo of Rubin Observatory while taking pictures during the First Look observing campaign
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    STEM Community Day 2026

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Employee Resource Groups

Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are an essential part of our SLAC community and are open to all employees.

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Director’s Office

Website for the Office of the Lab Director, with some essential resources for SLAC staff.

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SLAC's colloquium talks are aimed at a broad scientific and technical audience, but occasionally, those talks may be of more general interest.

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News Release

SLAC and UCLA researchers build plasma accelerator that boosts electron energy and brightness at the same time

Surfing a plasma wave, electrons get an energy and brightness boost.

January 5, 2026  ·  6 min read
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Fact sheet: Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)

A downloadable PDF fact sheet about the SSRL facility at SLAC.

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Public lectures video archive

Learn about our SLAC sciences by watching our past lecture recordings.

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News Brief

SLAC researchers measure how materials hotter than the sun’s surface conduct electricity

With a new method that could be extended to study Earth’s core and nuclear fusion, they identify and explain jumps in the electrical conductivity...

December 18, 2025  ·  3 min read
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This exotic form of ice just got weirder

Researchers find evidence of coexisting atomic stacking patterns in superionic water. 

January 8, 2026  ·  6 min read
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SLAC-Stanford team develops a better method to create superlattices with a twist

Imaging at SLAC's synchrotron demonstrates the twisted structures’ exotic properties that could benefit the development of superconductors and quantum materials.

January 16, 2026  ·  4 min read
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Dark Energy Survey scientists release new analysis of how the universe expands

The latest results combined weak lensing and galaxy clustering and incorporated four dark energy probes from a single experiment for the first time.

January 22, 2026
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SLAC Science Explained

LSST Camera: A moving picture of the cosmos

The LSST Camera explores cosmic mysteries as part of the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

June 1, 2022  ·  7 min read
 The background shows a compilation of the first images taken with the LSST Camera at Rubin Observatory. The overlay shows the LSST Camera in the cleanroom at SLAC before it was shipped to be installed into the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
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443-million-year-old fossils reveal early vertebrate eyes

Using SSRL, scientists uncovered fossil evidence that the first groups of vertebrates possessed surprisingly advanced eyes. 

January 27, 2026
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