Catalysts make our modern lives possible. By reducing the start-up energy needed for chemical reactions, they facilitate the ...

An aerial view of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory campus. Embarcadero Media file photo. Authorities made an arrest after a break-in at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory campus on ...

High up on the top of Cerro Pachón in northern Chile, NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is nearing completion. At the heart ...

A recent study found that the Hubbard model failed to accurately predict the behavior of a simplified one-dimensional cuprate ...

A publication in Physical Review Letters by researchers at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory sheds ...

Researcher Minhal Gardezi, a graduate student in the physics department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, discusses what types of metals the scans are looking for at SLAC in Menlo Park on ...

Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created a high-energy, ultrashort, ultrahigh current petawatt peak power electron beam in a particle accelerator. This will allow them ...

Femtosecond-long, petawatt-peak power beam could be used to probe previously inaccessible phenomena in materials science, ...

Lasers for the win To solve this issue, SLAC researchers compressed billions of electrons into a length less than one micrometer using a laser-based shaping technique originally developed for X ...

Junko Yano and Vittal Yachandra's group and collaborators are using femtosecond X-rays at LCLS and supercomputers at NERSC to study photosystem II. Left to right: Junko Yano, Jan Kern, Sheraz Gul ...