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Using data from the world’s most powerful X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, an international team of scientists has made a crucial advance in analyzing ultrafast motions of molecules.

News Feature · VIA Stanford Medicine

Your One-stop Shop for Producing, Crystallizing Biomolecules

The Macromolecular Structure Knowledge Center can help researchers who lack equipment for testing hundreds of different crystallization conditions or expertise in working with challenging molecules.

Accelerator scientists are in demand at labs and beyond.

Many technologies rely upon nanomaterials that can absorb or release atoms quickly and repeatedly. New work provides a first look inside these phase-changing nanoparticles.

Computer simulations and lab experiments help researchers understand the violent universe and could potentially lead to new technologies that benefit humankind.

Researchers use X-rays to study some of the most extreme and exotic forms of matter ever created, in detail never before possible.

The discovery supports a powerful tool for discovering galaxies that are otherwise too distant to observe, and could lead to advances that improve our understanding of dark matter.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Five Fascinating Facts About DUNE

One: The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment will look for more than just neutrinos.

VIA Symmetry Magazine

Art Draws Out the Beauty of Physics

Labs around the world open their doors to aesthetic creation.

New insights into how bacteria interact with host cells could help fight off harmful microbes.

Adding pressure could improve the performance of solar cells made of perovskites, a promising photovoltaic material.

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