Animation
This movie shows the transition of a gold sample from a solid (dotted pattern) to a liquid (ring pattern) after...
Illustration
A study using a powerful beam of electrons at SLAC has revealed new atomic details of the melting of gold...
Illustration
A new type of pocket-sized antenna, developed at SLAC, could enable mobile communication in situations where conventional radios don’t work...
Illustration
This illustration shows snapshots of the light-triggered transition of the ring-shaped 1,3-cyclohexadiene (CHD) molecule (background) to its stretched-out 1,3,5-hexatriene (HT) form (foreground).
Animation
Animation of a trifluoroiodomethane molecule (carbon shown in black, fluoride in green, iodine in pink) responding to laser light. The...
Illustration
Illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity – a key component of SLAC’s future LCLS-II X-ray laser.
Photograph
Stanford’s Roger Kornberg in his laboratory. Kornberg received the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining how DNA's genetic blueprint...
Photograph
Pictured are Stanford University Trustees Morris M. Doyle and Ira Lillick, seated, with (left to right) Dwight B. Adams, university...