Kumar’s work, carried out in part at SSRL, explains how memristors work – a new class of electronic devices with applications in next-generation information...

The results should further our understanding of similar reactions with vital roles in chemistry, such as the production of vitamin D in our bodies.

The first complete chemical analysis of feathers from Archaeopteryx, a famous fossil linking dinosaurs and birds, reveals that the feathers were patterned—light in color...

The Medal is the Nation's Highest Honor for Achievement in the Field of Science

A new understanding of the nucleation process could shed light on how the shells help microbes interact with their environments, and help people design...

The latest results put the strongest constraints on the expansion of the universe ever obtained with DES supernova data.

SLAC and Stanford's Yi Cui leads the quest to build more energetic batteries. For SSRL's involvement, read the sidebar "Batteries: An Inside Story."

SLAC’s Matt Garrett and Susan Simpkins talk about tech transfer that brings innovations from the national lab to the people, including advances for medical...

The giant cavity, in a protein that transports nutrients across the cell membrane, is unlike anything researchers have seen before.

Scientists used SLAC's LCLS X-ray laser to make the first snapshots of a chemical interaction between two biomolecules. It changes the shape of millions...

A new study is a step forward in understanding why perovskite materials work so well in energy devices and potentially leads the way toward...

A pioneer in developing methods for cryogenic electron microscopy, he directs two joint facilities for cryo-EM research and development on the SLAC campus.