The technique can be used to study molecular phenomena and the forming and breaking of chemical bonds.

Combined with the lab’s LCLS X-ray laser, it’ll provide unprecedented atomic views of some of nature’s speediest processes.

Using an X-ray laser, researchers watched atoms rotate on the surface of a material that was demagnetized in millionths of a billionth of a...

Cooks think of watched pots. Handymen grumble about drying paint.

Researchers investigate how much damage spreads through molecules struck by a pulse from LCLS.

This early-career scientist has undertaken challenging projects with significant implications for lithium-ion batteries.

Topological insulators conduct electricity on their surfaces but not through their interiors. SLAC scientists discovered that high harmonic generation produces a unique signature from...

The Hubbard model, used to understand electron behavior in numerous quantum materials, now shows us its stripes, and superconductivity too, in simulations for cuprate...

A better understanding of this process could inform the next generation of artificial photosynthetic systems that produce clean and renewable energy.

To invent a new tool for studying how chemicals react at interfaces, researchers shoot tiny jets of oil and water at each other and...

A machine learning algorithm automatically extracts information to speed up – and extend – the study of materials with X-ray pulse pairs.

Just as Schroedinger's Cat is both alive and dead, an atom or molecule can be in two different states at once. Now scientists have...