Islands of inactive lithium creep like worms to reconnect with their electrodes, restoring a battery’s capacity and lifespan.

Cryo-EM snapshots of the solid-electrolyte interphase, or SEI, reveal its natural swollen state and offer a new approach to lithium-metal battery design.

New research questions ‘whiff of oxygen’ in Earth’s early history.

DESI has already mapped out more galaxies than all previous 3D surveys combined, and it's just getting started.

High-speed X-ray free-electron lasers have unlocked the crystal structures of small molecules relevant to chemistry and materials science, proving a new method that could...

The results cap 15 years of detective work aimed at understanding how these materials transition into a superconducting state where they can conduct electricity...

Nine faculty from Stanford and SLAC are among the 564 new Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Less than a millionth of a billionth of a second long, attosecond X-ray pulses allow researchers to peer deep inside molecules and follow electrons...

Taking pictures of tiny, flash-frozen things with electrons is revolutionizing biology and technology. SLAC and Stanford host one of the world’s leading facilities for...

The X-rays they produce reveal the secrets of everything from ancient texts to modern pharmaceuticals.

Molecular movie-making is both an art and a science; the results let us watch how nature works on the smallest scales.

Physicist Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, known affectionately to most as "Pief," spent more than five decades at Stanford in enthusiastic pursuit of some of...