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Scientists create artificial catalysts inspired by living enzymes

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The X-ray laser movie shows what happens when light hits retinal, a key part of vision in animals and photosynthesis in microbes. The action...

An image of San Francisco Bay salt ponds from space
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Tiny pores in the shells of archaea microbes attract ammonium ions that are their sole source of energy, allowing them to thrive where this...

Artist's depiction of a tiny pore in an archaea's crystalline shell
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The researchers observed how an enzyme from drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria damages an antibiotic molecule. The new technique provides a powerful tool to examine changes...

Photo - CXI instrument at LCLS
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The National Institutes of Health center on the SLAC campus will make this revolutionary technology available to scientists nationwide and teach them how to...

Cryo-EM image of a proton pump involved in maintaining bone
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Experiments at SLAC heated water from room temperature to 100,000 degrees Celsius in less than a millionth of a millionth of a second, producing...

Illustration of water molecules hit by X-ray laser
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SIMES scientists have developed a manganese-hydrogen battery that could fill a missing piece in the nation’s energy puzzle by storing wind and solar energy...

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Like turning a snowball back into fluffy snow, a new technique turns high-density materials into a lower-density one by applying the chemical equivalent of...

SLAC scientists working at SSRL experimental station
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The new facility provides revolutionary tools for exploring tiny biological machines, from viral particles to the interior of the cell.

SLAC-Stanford Cryo-EM Facility
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The liquid sheets – less than 100 water molecules thick – will let researchers probe chemical, physical and biological processes, and even the nature...

A glass chip used as a nozzle to create thin sheets of flowing liquid.
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SLAC and its collaborators are transforming the way new materials are discovered. In a new report, they combine artificial intelligence and accelerated experiments to...

SLAC postdoctoral scholar Fang Ren at an SSRL beamline
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When it comes to making molecular movies, producing the world’s fastest X-ray pulses is only half the battle. A new technique reveals details about...

Illustration of the LCSL "attoclock"
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Understanding strontium titanate’s odd behavior will aid efforts to develop materials that conduct electricity with 100 percent efficiency at higher temperatures.

Image of magnet floating above a superconducting material