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Leaving Transistors in the Dust: Visualizing the Next Computing Revolution

October 1, 2022  ·  01:29:43  runtime
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Getting to the Core of Earth’s Magnetic Field

Public lecture presented by Ben Ofori-Okai
February 3, 2022  ·  01:21:45  runtime
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Discovering the Colors of Fossil Creatures

May 12, 2020
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Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera

Vera C. Rubin Observatory will conduct the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which will collect 60 petabytes of data to address...
September 8, 2020  ·  00:02:40  runtime
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Rubin Observatory Camera Assembly TimeLapse

Inserting rafts into the focal plane of the LSST Camera was a high-stakes operation that took about six months.
September 8, 2020  ·  00:00:15  runtime
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FACET-II

FACET-II is the only facility in the world capable of providing high-energy electron and positron beams for researching a vast array of revolutionary accelerator...
October 9, 2020
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FACET-II upgrade

Over the course of two years, crews at SLAC installed a state-of-the-art high brightness electron source and new electron bunch compressor systems for producing...
October 9, 2020
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Tuberculosis Protein New Discovery

Cornelius Gati and other researchers were studying a protein thought to be important for the progression of tuberculosis when they made a strange discovery...
April 24, 2020  ·  00:02:00  runtime
Tuberculosis Protein New Discovery 2020 // Cornelius GATI
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Making a molecular movie: how it works

This video explains the basics of how scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory use powerful X-rays from the Linac Coherent Light Source to make...
September 1, 2019  ·  00:01:01  runtime
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SLAC history and welcome

This documentary chronicles SLAC’s history, shares personal experiences from some of its directors, scientists and innovators, and offers a glimpse into the many projects...
June 23, 2020  ·  00:17:39  runtime
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SLAC acute shortage ventilator project

Sander Breur from SLAC’s EXO neutrino research group, describes the acute shortage ventilator project.
August 13, 2020  ·  00:01:01  runtime
SLAC scientists invent low-cost emergency ventilator
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SSRL X-Ray Crystallography Covid-19 Research

Jeney Wierman, a staff scientist at SLAC, explains how SSRL tools are contributing to COVID-19 research.
July 30, 2020  ·  00:03:07  runtime
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