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Scientists create artificial catalysts inspired by living enzymes

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David Cesar, Julia Gonski and W.L. Kimmy Wu will each receive $2.75 million issued over five years for their research in X-ray and ultrafast...

Early Career Award Winners 2024
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The Center for Energy Efficient Magnonics (CEEMag) brings together a multidisciplinary group of researchers from SLAC and seven universities

Spin wave-based interconnect illustration
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The results, which show how the protein adds nucleotides to the growing RNA chain, could lead to more effective medications.

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Charging lithium-ion batteries at high currents just before they leave the factory is 30 times faster and increases battery lifespans by 50%, according to...

An illustration shows batteries flow down an assembly line, turning them from gray to green.
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New results from the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes...

A tall white cylinder stands in a clean room space.
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Their method provides a new tool to study electron-electron interactions, which are fundamental to many technologies, including semiconductors and solar cells.

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A materials chemist and SLAC associate scientist, Preefer is excited about the synergies being sparked at the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center. 

Headshot Molleigh Preefer at SSRL
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The finding could help future efforts to design superconductors that work at higher temperatures.

This is a graphic drawing that represents how electrons lock together in a superconducting material.
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An X-ray imaging technique revealed that copper nanofoams used in inertial fusion experiments aren't as uniform as expected.

Green blobs on a blue background.
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The 3.5-meter  glass mirror is the first permanent component of the Simonyi Survey Telescope's  state-of-the-art, wide-field optical system to be installed and will soon...

A donut-shaped mirror is lowered into a large support apparatus.
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Wheat and other sources of gluten can spell trouble for people with the disease, but new findings could aid the development of first-ever drugs...

Close up of wheat in a field.
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The method could lead to the development of new materials with tailored properties, with potential applications in fields such as climate change, quantum computing...

self driving experiments