Scientists studying laser-plasma proton acceleration made an unexpected breakthrough, simultaneously resolving multiple long-standing problems although they had only aimed to address one. 

Public lecture presented by Yi Cui

Four-day Event Includes Presentations by Nobel Prize Winners, Other Science Luminaries

In the largest dataset ever collected by a dark matter detector, LUX-ZEPLIN's latest results provide the strongest constraints on low-mass WIMPs and detect boron-8...

A new paper describes a way to fabricate glasses that can correct X-ray focusing problems at synchrotrons and X-ray lasers.

Presented by Yi Cui, SLAC/Stanford University. To transform our energy sources to carbon neutrality, we need to power as much of modern society as...

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By tinkering and troubleshooting, Aalayah Spencer helps turn researchers’ ideas into state-of-the-art science experiments.

Together with two long-time collaborators, he is recognized for work that helps us understand the strong nuclear force.

They saw how the material finds a path to contorting and flexing to avoid being irreversibly crushed.

A 200-terawatt laser at SLAC will synchronize with X-ray laser pulses to precisely measure more extreme temperatures and pressures in exotic forms of matter.

New observations of the atomic structure of iron reveal it undergoes "twinning" under extreme stress and pressure.