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The technology could save the lives of COVID-19 patients when more advanced ventilators are too expensive or not available.

Ventilator Prototype

The technique they used will offer insight into many different chemical reactions.

hydroxyl radical

Researchers developed a way to measure the basic properties of matter at the highest pressures thus far achieved in a controlled laboratory experiment.

White dwarf

Observations of dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way have yielded simultaneous constraints on three popular theories of dark matter.

simulations of distribution of dark matter around a galaxy

Scientists are deploying this state-of-the-art X-ray crystallography facility to study biological molecules related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a new perspective, SLAC and University of Paderborn scientists argue that research at synchrotrons could help improve water-purifying materials in ways that might not otherwise be possible.

Cracked, dry earth landscape.

A pioneer in developing methods for cryogenic electron microscopy, he directs two joint facilities for cryo-EM research and development on the SLAC campus.

Photo of Professor Wah Chui with a cryo-electron micrcoscope

Marking the beginning of the LCLS-II era, the first phase of the major upgrade comes online.

New undulator hall

New research could offer insights into the formation of planets like Earth and inform the design of more resilient materials.

Iron impact header

A proposed device could expand the reach of X-ray lasers, opening new experimental avenues in biology, chemistry, materials science and physics.

x-ray laser oscillator

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