Scientists at Stanford and SLAC redesigned current conductors — thin metal foils that distribute current to and from electrodes — to make lithium-ion batteries lighter,…
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SLAC scientists have invented a copper accelerator structure that could make future X-ray lasers and accelerators for radiation therapy more compact. It feeds terahertz radiation…
In a search for COVID-19 treatments, researchers pursue a drug used on cats. University of Alberta researchers worked with SLAC X-ray scientists to explore the…
Crews at SLAC have taken the first 3,200-megapixel images with the complete focal plane of the LSST Camera, the future “eye” of Vera C. Rubin…
Scientists are deploying this state-of-the-art X-ray crystallography facility to study biological molecules related to the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s a new bright spot at the Stanford…
White dwarfs are among the most ancient stellar objects, so their temperatures and predictable lifecycles enable them to work as “cosmic clocks” that can help…
In a study at SLAC and Stanford, theorists predicted that catalyst nanoparticles made of palladium and platinum (left) would become rounder during certain chemical reactions…
To study the powerful shock waves in supernova remnants, Frederico Fiuza and colleagues created similar plasma shock waves in the lab. Here, computer simulations reveal…
A new computer vision algorithm for identifying particles in a lithium-ion battery cathode has helped researchers track the cathode’s degradation over time. Credit: Image courtesy…
A still image from a simulation of the formation of dark matter structures from the early universe until today. Gravity makes dark matter clump into…
Understanding nature’s process could inform the next generation of artificial photosynthetic systems that produce clean and renewable energy from sunlight and water. Photosystem II is…
Scientists have directly seen the first step in a light-driven chemical reaction for the first time. They used an X-ray free-electron laser at SLAC to…
These balloon-and-disc shapes represent an electron orbital — a fuzzy electron cloud around an atom’s nucleus — in two different orientations. Scientists hope to someday…
To improve the quality of electron bunches, laser heaters shakes them back and forth as they follow the path of an infrared laser beam. By…
A still image from a simulation of the formation of dark matter structures from the early universe until today. Gravity makes dark matter clump into…
Turning a brittle oxide into a flexible membrane and stretching it on a tiny apparatus flipped it from a conducting to an insulating state and…
Example of 3D-printed copper component that could be used in a particle accelerator: X-band klystron output cavity with micro-cooling channels. Credit: Christopher Ledford/North Carolina State…
Experiments at SLAC showed that an inexpensive photosensitizer molecule, iron carbene, can respond in two competing ways when hit by light. Only one of those…
An artist’s rendition of neutrino activity. Scientists create new experiment to find neutrinos. One of the greatest mysteries in astrophysics these days is a tiny…
In a new study, astrophysicists have found a certain gamma-ray glow in the sky, known as unresolved gamma-ray background (yellow), to coincide with cosmic regions…