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A machine learning algorithm automatically extracts information to speed up – and extend – the study of materials with X-ray pulse pairs.

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For decades, materials scientists have focused on materials that are relatively balanced and unchanging – but not Yijing Huang, a postdoctoral scholar at the...

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Blaine Mooers, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, has won this year’s Farrel W. Lytle...

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Encapsulating precious-metal catalysts in a web-like alumina framework could reduce the amount needed in catalytic converters – and our dependency on these scarce metals.

A web of red material encapsulates blue polyhedrons.

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Studies of atomic-level processes that drain battery life and efficiency help improve battery performance.

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At LCLS, crystallized ribosomes travel through a capillary into the interaction region, where they are zapped with a beam of X-rays. The X-rays scatter...

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A SLAC-led team has invented a method, called XLEAP, that generates powerful low-energy X-ray laser pulses that are only 280 attoseconds, or billionths of...

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By detecting minute traces of original pigments in fossils, X-ray imaging at synchrotrons has given scientists the chemical evidence needed to discover the actual...

X-ray imaging at synchrotrons has given scientists the chemical evidence needed to discover the actual colors of ancient life forms.

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The ultrafast, ultrabright X-ray pulses of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) have enabled unprecedented views of a catalyst in action, an important step...

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Undulator Hall with soft X-ray undulators to the left and hard-X-ray undulators to the right.

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LCLS Undulator Hall with both soft X-ray undulators, left, and hard X-ray undulators, right.

Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Undulator Hall

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The protein could play a key role in soil carbon cycling and soil decomposition.

A machine learning algorithm automatically extracts information to speed up – and extend – the study of materials with X-ray pulse pairs.

For decades, materials scientists have focused on materials that are relatively balanced and unchanging – but not Yijing Huang, a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. With the aid of SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source...

Blaine Mooers, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, has won this year’s Farrel W. Lytle Award for advancing synchrotron science and RNA editing research at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National...

Encapsulating precious-metal catalysts in a web-like alumina framework could reduce the amount needed in catalytic converters – and our dependency on these scarce metals.

Studies of atomic-level processes that drain battery life and efficiency help improve battery performance.

At LCLS, crystallized ribosomes travel through a capillary into the interaction region, where they are zapped with a beam of X-rays. The X-rays scatter off the crystals into a detector, providing the researchers with patterns they can use to build...

A SLAC-led team has invented a method, called XLEAP, that generates powerful low-energy X-ray laser pulses that are only 280 attoseconds, or billionths of a billionth of a second, long and that can reveal for the first time the fastest...

By detecting minute traces of original pigments in fossils, X-ray imaging at synchrotrons has given scientists the chemical evidence needed to discover the actual colors of ancient life forms.

The ultrafast, ultrabright X-ray pulses of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) have enabled unprecedented views of a catalyst in action, an important step in the effort to develop cleaner and more efficient energy sources.

Undulator Hall with soft X-ray undulators to the left and hard-X-ray undulators to the right.

LCLS Undulator Hall with both soft X-ray undulators, left, and hard X-ray undulators, right.

The protein could play a key role in soil carbon cycling and soil decomposition.

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Molecular cage protects precious metals in catalytic converters

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Crystallized ribosomes

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Actual colors of ancient life forms

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Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Undulator Hall

Mysterious soil virus gene seen for first time

Artificial intelligence deciphers detector "clouds" to accelerate materials research

Yijing Huang wins 2022 LCLS Young Investigator Award for work on controlling unique structures of semiconductors

Blaine Mooers wins 2022 Lytle Award for decades of synchrotron leadership and RNA research

Molecular cage protects precious metals in catalytic converters

Battery life and efficiency

Crystallized ribosomes

XLEAP illustration

Actual colors of ancient life forms

Chemical reaction

Undulator hall

Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Undulator Hall

Mysterious soil virus gene seen for first time