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New SLAC-Stanford Battery Center bridges the gaps between discovering, manufacturing and deploying innovative energy storage solutions. 

The SLAC-Stanford team pulled hydrogen directly from ocean waters. Their work could help efforts to generate low-carbon fuel for electric grids, cars, boats and other infrastructure.

An astronomy festival will mark the milestone.

A molecule with hooks that can grip and disable the virus’s pesky protease shows potential for fighting infection.

SLAC researcher Sadasivan Shankar talks about a new environmental effort starting at the lab – building a roadmap that will help researchers improve the energy efficiency of computing, from devices like cellphones to artificial intelligence.

The synthetic galaxy catalog will help test Roman's capabilities and foster collaboration with the Rubin project. 

This ‘beautiful’ herringbone-like pattern could give rise to unique features that scientists are just starting to explore.

Together with two long-time collaborators, he is recognized for work that helps us understand the strong nuclear force.

Experiments visualize how 2D perovskite structures change when excited.

If scaled up successfully, the team's new system could help answer questions about certain kinds of superconductors and other unusual states of matter.

Researchers used cryo-EM (left) to discover how a chamber in human cells (right) directs protein folding. 

A polymer-based electrolyte makes for batteries that keep working – and don’t catch fire – when heated to over 140 degrees F.