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Paving the way for flexible electronics, engineers have developed a plastic electrode that stretches like rubber but carries electricity like wires.

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A new paper describes a way to fabricate glasses that can correct X-ray focusing problems at synchrotrons and X-ray lasers.

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Instrument Finds New Earthly Purpose

Detectors long used to look at the cosmos are now part of X-ray experiments here on Earth.

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X-rays show details of an insect virus’s crystalline cocoon with sub-nanometer resolution.

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After 50 Years of Operation, One-third of the Lab’s Historic Linear Accelerator Is Extracted to Build Powerful New X-Ray Laser

photo - the empty accelerator tunnel
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Using an electric field, researchers drew magnetic designs in nonmagnetic material. These efforts could lead to new types of storage devices.

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The electric field aligns the spins of the electrons in the nonmagnetic material, and the ordering creates magnetic properties.

The electric field aligns the spins of the electrons in the nonmagnetic material, and the ordering creates magnetic properties.
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This video explains how, in a previous paper, researchers were able to see two key steps in photosynthetic water splitting under conditions as it...

Animated video of photosynthesis
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New X-ray methods have captured the highest resolution room-temperature images of photosystem II.

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Two recently funded computing projects work toward developing cutting-edge scientific applications for future exascale supercomputers that can perform at least a billion billion computing...

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During a recent shutdown, engineers installed new beamline technology and a 3-D virtual tour captured rare views of the synchrotron’s interior.

New in-vacuum undulator
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For the first time, scientists at SLAC’s X-ray laser have created bright, three-colored X-ray pulses.