Roberto Alonso Mori (right) and Dimosthenis Sokaras work on a spectrometer at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource.
This illustration shows snapshots of the light-triggered transition of the ring-shaped 1,3-cyclohexadiene (CHD) molecule (background) to its stretched-out 1,3,5-hexatriene (HT) form (foreground).
The first of 37 cryomodules for LCLS-II is moved off of its truck after being shipped from Fermilab. All the cryomodules were delivered...
At LCLS, crystallized ribosomes travel through a capillary into the interaction region, where they are zapped with a beam of X-rays.
Illustration of how a single crystal sample of silicon deforms during shock compression on nanosecond timescales.
X-ray laser pulses probe water droplets like these to discover water’s hidden (and sometimes bizarre) properties.
SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Near Experimental Hall building at sunrise with Stanford University Hoover Tower in the background.
An animation shows how an infrared laser beam (orange) triggers atomic vibrations in a thin layer of iron selenide, which are then recorded by...
