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Scientists create artificial catalysts inspired by living enzymes
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The award honors his work on a world-class experimental station at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource.

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Participants of SLAC’s summer school learned about the next generation of collider physics through lectures, topical conference talks, student projects, poster sessions and tours.

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Researchers have engineered a low-cost plastic material that could become the basis for clothing that cools the wearer, reducing the need for energy-consuming air...

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The discovery could make water splitting, a key step in a number of clean energy technologies, cheaper and more efficient.

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Liu acknowledged for wide-ranging work in energy materials, catalysis, carbon sequestration, material in extreme conditions and scientific big data mining.

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The Precourt Institute and the TomKat Center have awarded 15 seed grants for innovative energy research at Stanford and SLAC.

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Merging two powerful 3-D X-ray techniques, researchers revealed new details of a process known as metal poisoning that clogs the pores of catalyst particles...

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A ‘nonlinear’ phenomenon that seemingly turns materials transparent is seen for the first time in X-rays at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source.

Illustration of an LCLS experiment in which a sample seemed to disapper
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Thirty students from around the country performed research projects and more at SLAC this summer through the SULI program.

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Researchers at SLAC and Stanford have created a nanostructured device, about half the size of a postage stamp, that harnesses more of the sun's...

A researcher holds a tiny device that uses sunlight to disinfect water.
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The Contents of the Universe

How do scientists know what percentages of the universe are made up of dark matter and dark energy?

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Silicon chips can store data in billionths of a second, but phase-change memory could be 1,000 times faster, while using less energy and requiring...