Research associate Megan Mayer and graduate student Patrick Mitchell load a sample into a cryogenic electron microscope at SLAC.


A narrow two-mile long building stretches through trees and foothills.

Ultra-bright X-ray laser pulses can be used to strip electrons away from atoms, creating ions with strong charges.



The nanoscale patterns of SLAC and Stanford’s accelerator on a chip gleam in rainbow colors prior to being assembled and cut into their final...

SLAC’s Chris Kenney holds a 16-module, 2.2-megapixel ePix10k X-ray camera.


Putting the fourth, and final, SuperCDMS tower safely back into its storage container.

FACET-II is the only facility in the world capable of providing high-energy electron and positron beams for researching a vast array of revolutionary accelerator...

A half-mile-long stretch of tunnel in Menlo Park, California is now colder than most of the universe.
