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Scientists create artificial catalysts inspired by living enzymes
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Experiments running at these higher pulse rates will allow scientists to capture ultrafast processes with greater precision, collect data more efficiently and explore phenomena...

lcls ii milestone
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In the largest dataset ever collected by a dark matter detector, LUX-ZEPLIN's latest results provide the strongest constraints on low-mass WIMPs and detect boron-8...

Overhead view looking down into a white structure with dozens of orange circular components arranged radially.
News Brief

Researchers with the Doudna group used SSRL to uncover how viruses use special enzymes to evade a host's defenses. 

A view of SLAC’s Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), looking west at sunset.
Feature

Researchers at SLAC are developing experimental techniques to evaluate new candidates for inertial fusion energy targets. 

a graphic in the style of graphic novel depicts four lasers converging on a spherical target, which represents an inertial fusion energy reaction
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The SLAC team is developing digital twins – powered by AI and high-performance computing – to help quickly shape high-quality particle beams for the...

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News Brief
Via Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics

Observing quantum footballs blown up by laser kicks

Laser-driven break up of "buckyballs" is recorded in real-time by X-ray imaging at LCLS. 

Buckyballs
News Brief

A new machine learning algorithm rapidly reconstructs 3D images from X-ray data. 

Schematic of a machine learning algorithm that reconstructs 3D images from X-ray data
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SLAC and Stanford scientists uncovered a quantum spin liquid, a state of matter that may have applications for quantum information.

An assembly of blue-green crystals
News Brief

He was honored for his work in ultrafast physics.

Portrait of Shambhu Ghimire
News Release

SLAC and Stanford partner with Argonne National Laboratory and others toward a quantum-interconnected world.

A person in a bunny suit examines a wafer
SLAC Science Explained

Quantum networking is the framework that uses the strange properties of quantum mechanics to transmit quantum information, encoded in qubits, from one quantum device...

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After a major upgrade, SLAC's X-ray free-electron laser is 10,000 times brighter and thousands of times faster. Now, researchers are using LCLS to observe...

Detail of the TMO hutch at SLAC's X-ray laser