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Browse the full collection of SLAC press releases and news features and stay up to date on the latest scientific advancements at the laboratory.

Paul Fuoss, the new head of experimental design at LCLS, aims to make experiments at light sources here and around the world more productive and user-friendly.

~ Q&A series with SLAC scientists ~

Femtosecond Week at SLAC

An advance by SLAC and Stanford researchers greatly reduces the time needed to analyze complex catalytic reactions for making fuel, industrial chemicals and other products, and should improve computational analysis throughout chemistry.

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Beyond Femtoseconds

Researchers at SLAC are already looking at the largely unexplored realm of attosecond science.

Aaron Lindenberg, associate professor at Stanford and SLAC, talks about how he combines X-ray and electron techniques to understand and engineer novel materials.

Our ultrafast science factsheet gives an overview of the femtosecond world.

Read about how SLAC professor Siegfried Glenzer creates extreme conditions like those in the cores of planets and studies nuclear fusion.

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Virtual Tours of LCLS

Take a digital tour of the undulators and near experimental hall at the Linac Coherent Light Source.

PULSE scientist Amy Cordones-Hahn describes her work on chemical reactions that turn sunlight into useable energy.

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Scales of time

Explore the fourth dimension, from processes that occur in billions of years down to tiny slivers of a second.

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