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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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The SuperCDMS SNOLAB project, a multi-institutional effort led by SLAC, is expanding the hunt for dark matter to particles with properties not accessible to...

SuperCDMS Detector 2
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The SuperCDMS dark matter experiment will be located at the Canadian laboratory SNOLAB, 2 kilometers (6,800 feet) underground inside a...
SuperCDMS Location
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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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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
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Research conducted at the atomic scale could help explain how electric currents move efficiently through hybrid perovskites, promising materials for solar cells.

Illustration of what happens when simulated sunlight hits perovskite
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Part of Stanford's celebration of Frankenstein@200, the fifth LAST Festival brings together artists and scientists for two days of exhibitions and

Sculpture by Amy Karle
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Streamlining their journey through the electrolyte could help lithium-ion batteries charge faster.

Illustration of molecular layers in battery electrolyte
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Experiments with 'molecular anvils' mark an important advance for mechanochemistry, which has the potential to make chemistry greener and more precise.

Illustration of soft molecules attached to molecular anvils between diamond tips
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Combining X-ray and electron data from two cutting-edge SLAC instruments, researchers make the first observation of the rapid atomic response of iron-platinum nanoparticles to...

ultrafast electron diffraction on iron-platinum
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They created a comprehensive picture of how the same chemical processes that give these cathodes their high capacity are also linked to changes in...

Electrode structure for lithium ion battery.
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These stripes of electron spin and charge are exciting because of their possible link to a phenomenon that could transform society by making electrical...

Illustration of spin and charge stripes modeled by computer