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A SLAC study observed silica's shockingly fast transformation into a highly compressed form found in meteor craters.

Image - Meteor Crater, formed by a meteorite impact 50,000 years ago in Arizona, produced a hard, compressed form of silica known as stishovite. Researchers measured the transformation of a fused silica glass into stishovite using SLAC's X-ray laser.

Understanding Motions of Thin Layers May Help Design Solar Cells, Electronics and Catalysts of the Future

a three-atom-thick layer of a promising material as it wrinkles in response to a laser pulse

Visit the immersive Nobel Labs 360 website about Kobilka, including an interactive tour of his work at SSRL. To find the SSRL section, click twice on the window in the upper right corner.

Researchers at SLAC have for the first time seen a spin current – an inherent magnetic property common to all electrons – as it travels across materials.

Image - This illustration shows the flow of a magnetic property of electrons known as spin current from a magnetic material (blue), to a nonmagnetic material (red). (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Combined Results Find Higgs Still Standard

The CMS and ATLAS experiments combined forces to more precisely measure properties of the Higgs boson.

ATLAS experiment image

A major international effort at SLAC is focused on improving our views of intact viruses, living bacteria and other tiny samples using the brightest X-ray light on Earth.

Researchers monitor the performance of a single particle imaging experiment

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, scientists got a textbook-worthy result that may change the way matter is probed at X-ray free-electron lasers.

The Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser at SLAC

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope’s ‘Eye’ Will be Built at SLAC.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Looking for Strings Inside Inflation

Theorists from the Institute for Advanced Study have proposed a way forward in the quest to test string theory.

A SLAC-led research team working at the lab’s FACET facility has demonstrated a new way of accelerating positrons that could help develop smaller, more economical future particle colliders.

Simulation of high-energy positron acceleration in an ionized gas, or plasma

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