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Researchers Pioneer Quick Way to Develop Faster Organic Semiconductors for Flexible Displays

Organic semiconductors hold immense promise for use in thin film and flexible displays – picture an iPad you can roll up – but they...

August 18, 2011  ·  4 min read
Single crystal of new organic semiconductor shown in polarized light (Image by Anatoliy Sokolov.)
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The LSST: Knowing the Telescope Before It is Built

In repeatedly and systematically surveying the sky with deep, large-field-of-view images in six optical color bands on a 3 billion pixel camera for years...

July 19, 2011  ·  2 min read
Possible imperfections in LSST images
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LCLS Ramps Up for Fourth Experimental Run

Shutdown doesn't mean slow down for workers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's Linac Coherent Light Source, LCLS.

May 23, 2011  ·  8 min read
LCLS Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering Endstation
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LCLS Teams Up with DESY on Shortest X-ray Exposure of a Protein Crystal Ever

from Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

January 4, 2012  ·  1 min read
X-rays scattered from crystals formed from proteins
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NuSTAR Rises to Guide Astrophysics Research Into Hard X-ray Regime

NASA's newest telescope headed for orbit yesterday, its rocket igniting in the night skies south of Kwajalein Atoll after being dropped from the underbelly...

June 14, 2012  ·  3 min read
NuSTAR in Orbit
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A New Way to Discover Pulsars

The Large Area Telescope (LAT), built by SLAC for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, collects information on high-energy gamma rays from numerous sources in...

May 21, 2012  ·  1 min read
Artist’s conception of a pulsar
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Study Cracks a Secret of Methanol Production

What’s the best way to make methanol? The question is more pressing than it sounds.

May 23, 2012  ·  4 min read
methanol production
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Researchers Converge to Map Out a Way to Interpret Particle Collision Images

One of the most striking features of particle collisions is the jet: a spray of particles, or energy – or both – produced when...

October 25, 2011  ·  2 min read
A rainbow burst depicting a simulated black hole event in ATLAS detector
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Sorting Millions of Snapshots from the LCLS

The great thing about SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source is that it churns out incredible volumes of data about things no one has ever...

August 30, 2011  ·  3 min read
Individual snapshots to be sorted
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20th Anniversary of a Great Idea: Building the LCLS at SLAC

The spectacular success of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world’s first hard X-ray free-electron laser, has put SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at...

February 23, 2012  ·  5 min read
A 1993 diagram showing the proposed layout of the Linac Coherent Light Source
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BaBar Data Preserved in 'Computational Cocoon' for Future Analysis

More than eight years worth of pristine particle physics data will remain available for analysis or re-analysis at least until 2018, now that BaBar's...

May 14, 2012  ·  2 min read
BaBar Computing Coordinator Tina Cartaro
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SLAC Scientists Study How Nature Cleans Uranium from Colorado Aquifer

Rifle, Colorado, is a small town on the Colorado River, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, that's big on natural resources.

January 10, 2012  ·  4 min read
SSRL beamline scientist John Bargar near Beamline 11-2
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