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

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      Building smaller, faster, more powerful accelerators for all

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Public Lectures

Catalytic Adventures in an X-ray Playground

Join us at the Kavli Building or online. Registration is required if you plan to attend in person. Catalysts are the unsung heroes of...
Date Thursday, November 20, 2025
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
Public Lecture: Adam Hoffman
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Catalytic adventures in an X-ray playground

January 8, 2026
Poster for public lecture about catalytic adventures in an X-ray playground
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Public Lectures

Humans Navigating Complexity with AI Helpers

Modern particle accelerator control rooms are like busy air traffic control centers, where skilled operators juggle hundreds of interconnected and time-sensitive tasks to generate...
Date Thursday, January 22, 2026
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
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Public Lecture Poster

Humans Navigating Complexity with AI Helpers

January 8, 2026
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New technologies

Modern technology creates new opportunities for society: Just think about how artificial intelligence has changed our cars and cell phone apps.

Neural Nets and Gravitational Lenses
News Brief

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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SLAC science explained

SLAC develops and deploys some of the world’s most advanced scientific tools for exploring how the universe works at the biggest, smallest and fastest scales. Here we explain how they work and the exciting discoveries they make possible.

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News Brief
VIA Fermilab

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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Lynbrook High claims 2021 SLAC Regional Science Bowl victory

The pandemic forced major changes to the format, but 30 teams from 22 schools still came together online to vie for a slot at...

February 11, 2021  ·  3 min read
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News Brief
Via The University of Manchester

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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