The world's most powerful X-ray laser is located at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory ... (LCLS), the laser is situated in the perfect spot in the Bay Area. "There's about a mile-long ...

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

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) was originally called Stanford Linear Accelerator Center when it was established in 1962 on some land owned by Stanford University in California.

Researchers found a protein that's essential for an enterovirus to enter human cells. Although not the infamous example—that title goes to poliovirus—other enteroviruses such as enterovirus D68 can ...

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 ...

The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory team loading the LSST Camera on a transport cart for testing in February 2025. Courtesy Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC ...