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The Center for Energy Efficient Magnonics (CEEMag) brings together a multidisciplinary group of researchers from SLAC and seven universities

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The results, which show how the protein adds nucleotides to the growing RNA chain, could lead to more effective medications.

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Their method provides a new tool to study electron-electron interactions, which are fundamental to many technologies, including semiconductors and solar cells.

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Scientists uncovered new information about the photoelectric effect, a phenomenon first described by Einstein over a century ago. 
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A materials chemist and SLAC associate scientist, Preefer is excited about the synergies being sparked at the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center. 

Headshot Molleigh Preefer at SSRL
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An X-ray imaging technique revealed that copper nanofoams used in inertial fusion experiments aren't as uniform as expected.

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Scientists demonstrated a materials characterization technique can be successful at a new type of facility, and they used it at LCLS to discover a...

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Wheat and other sources of gluten can spell trouble for people with the disease, but new findings could aid the development of first-ever drugs...

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The method could lead to the development of new materials with tailored properties, with potential applications in fields such as climate change, quantum computing...

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A study reveals an ultrathin material’s ability to circularly polarize light, potentially informing how they work in optoelectronic devices.

Image from SLAC's high-speed electron camera showing circular polarization of terahertz light.
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Improvements to the lab’s “electron camera” use AI and “time stamping” to help reveal nature’s speedy processes more accurately. 

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The Ultrafast X-ray Summer School, run by the Stanford PULSE Institute and hosted at SLAC, opens the door for students and postdocs to imagine...

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