Experiments at SLAC’s X-ray laser reveal in atomic detail how two distinct liquid phases in these materials enable fast switching between glassy and crystalline...

Physicist Tor Raubenheimer explores the world by climbing rocks and designing particle accelerators.

A close-up look at how microbes build their crystalline shells has implications for understanding how cell structures form, preventing disease and developing nanotechnology.

Four large meshes made from 2 miles of metal wire will extract potential signals of dark matter particles.

A new twist on cryo-EM imaging reveals what’s going on inside MOFs, highly porous nanoparticles with big potential for storing fuel, separating gases and...

Particle accelerators are some of the most complicated machines in science.

Combined with the lab’s LCLS X-ray laser, it’ll provide unprecedented atomic views of some of nature’s speediest processes.

A SLAC/Stanford study of the population of satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way provides new clues about the particle nature of dark matter.

The technique can be used to study molecular phenomena and the forming and breaking of chemical bonds.

Maria Elena Monzani prepares an international team to search for clues to one of the biggest scientific mysteries.

If a particle has no mass, how can it exist?

This early-career scientist has undertaken challenging projects with significant implications for lithium-ion batteries.