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Method’s unprecedented combination of atomic resolution and extraordinary speed opens up new opportunities for ultrafast science.

Upgrade will sharpen our view of nature’s atomic processes at work, aiding the development of a number of transformative technologies.

Illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity.

Scientists have used X-rays to observe exactly how silver electrical contacts form during manufacturing of solar modules.

News Feature · VIA Stanford News

Partners in Discovery

Working together, researchers at SLAC and Stanford expand our knowledge of materials, molecules and the universe.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

The Milky Way’s Hot Spot

The center of our galaxy is a busy place. But it might be one of the best sites to hunt for dark matter.

Their results suggest a more efficient way to store energy from solar and wind power by converting it into renewable fuels.

A water-splitting device at the University of Toronto
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Why Are Particle Accelerators so Large?

CERN physicist Edda Gschwendtner explains why we need big machines to study tiny particles.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Bump Watch 2016

A bump in the LHC data has physicists electrified…but what does it mean?

A new experiment at the South Pole picks up where BICEP2 left off.

Scientists have determined in atomic detail how a potential drug molecule fits into and blocks a channel in cell membranes that Ebola and related “filoviruses” need to infect victims’ cells.

Alex Kintzer and Robert Stroud at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Light Source.

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