This short conceptual animation depicts how scientists can now simultaneously capture fractal morphology (structure), chemical composition and nanoscale imagery of individual aerosol particles in...
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In a landmark experiment at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, scientists used an X-ray laser to capture the first snapshots of a chemical interaction between...
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Lisa Rosenberg's talk looks at questions in areas such as systems, creative pathways, symbolic language, and social discourse. She reads selections from her recent...
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Watch the history of SLAC's Stanford Radiation Light Source celebrating 50 years in 2023.
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Marc Messerschmidt, a staff scientist at the Coherent X-ray Imaging (CXI) experimental station at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser, describes his daily...
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This animation explains how researchers accelerate positrons with a plasma – a method that may help boost the energy and shrink the size of...
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This movie introduces LCLS-II, a future light source at SLAC. It will generate over 8,000 times more light pulses per second than today’s most...
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Ryan Coffee, scientist at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser, explains, “What is a femtosecond?”
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Cornelius Gati and other researchers were studying a protein thought to be important for the progression of tuberculosis when they made a strange discovery...
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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is responding to the coronavirus crisis by imaging disease-related biomolecules, developing standards for reliable coronavirus testing and enabling other essential...
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