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Scientists create artificial catalysts inspired by living enzymes
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As QuantISED enters its next phase in its effort to develop quantum technologies capable of exploring some of the universe’s biggest unanswered questions, scientists...

quantised
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By adjusting the heating process when making lithium-ion cathodes, the team created batteries that retained nearly 93% of their energy after 500 cycles. 

Two line graphs with time axis, yellow arrow between them, 3D gray sphere with wedge beside yellow crystal, yellow-coated sphere on right, bottom panels showing uniform yellow-orange circular heat map and less-cracked orange circle, labeled "Uniform reaction, Homogeneous Ni states, Less cracked."
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The lab sent its final contribution to SLAC for the high-energy upgrade of the superconducting accelerator of the LCLS X-ray laser.

Fermilab Director Norbert Holtkamp signs a cryomodule while SLAC Director John Sarrao looks on.
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Their strategy revealed new details that open the door to designing proteins with powerful abilities that could ultimately benefit medicine and manufacturing. 

Illustration of proteins
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The X-ray Pump Probe instrument is returning to normal operations this spring, anticipating a major capability boost when the high-energy beam comes online. 

Person in teal jacket leaning over perforated metal table, holding green panel near robotic arm in industrial laboratory setting.
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This video breaks down how Rubin will run the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and build a 10-year time lapse of the...

Rubin Observatory with the night sky and Milky Way in the background
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SLAC scientists played key roles in leadership, survey design, cosmological  applications, studies of dark matter and of links to the cosmic microwave background.

Star trails over the Mayall Telescope.
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Researchers used X-ray lasers to control a modified cardiovascular drug with light and captured snapshots showing how it binds to proteins.

Photo of medications, pills and capsules
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Researchers reengineered an ePix10k detector for use in ultrafast electron diffraction, empowering studies of chemical processes that were previously out of reach. 

Photo of the detection chamber of SLAC's MeV-UED instrument
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Rubin’s largest asteroid haul yet, gathered before the Legacy Survey of Space and Time even begins, is just the “tip of the iceberg.”

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The research sheds light on how a key regulator of inflammation forms, which could help guide new therapeutic approaches to inflammatory diseases.

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Argonne, SLAC researchers designed a chip that compresses and processes detector data instantly, letting scientists analyze results and steer experiments as they happen.

Silicon chip that integrates both imaging sensors and data compression, shown next to a U.S. penny