Taken at SLAC, microscopic footage of exploding liquids will give researchers more control over experiments at X-ray lasers.

A new tool for analyzing mountains of data from SLAC’s Linac Coherent Lightsource (LCLS) X-ray laser can produce high-quality images of important proteins using...

Researchers have used an X-ray laser to record, in detail never possible before, the microscopic motion and effects of shock waves rippling across diamond.

This surprising finding has potentially broad implications, from X-ray imaging of single particles to fusion research.

A tiny change in the length of a chemical bond makes a big difference in the activity of a molecule important in health, drug...

If Benjamin Franklin were alive today, he would likely extend his often-quoted list of life's certainties – death and taxes – to include more...

Anna Llordes from Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry uses SSRL's Beam Line 11-3 for clues about where the smart films her group creates for windows...

Since 2009, SLAC scientist John Bargar has led a team using synchrotron-based X-ray techniques to study bacteria that help clean uranium from groundwater in...

New Technology Allows Faster, More Accurate Imaging of Hard-to-study Membrane Proteins

Last year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry – shared by Stanford School of Medicine Professor Brian Kobilka and Robert Lefkowitz of Duke University – recognized...

An experiment at SLAC's X-ray laser has revealed in atomic detail how a hypertension drug binds to a cellular receptor that plays a key...

TIMES applies the power of theory to the search for novel materials with remarkable properties that could revolutionize technology.