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Catching Chemistry in Motion
SLAC researchers have developed a laser-timing system that could lead to X-ray snapshots fast enough to reveal the triggers of chemical and material reactions.
SLAC Partners with Small Businesses to Put Technology to Good Use
Researchers at SLAC collaborate with small businesses to develop technology so it can benefit the world at large.
Symmetry: Partnership Generates Bright Ideas for Photon Science
Photon science, a spin-off of particle physics, has returned to its roots for help developing better, faster detectors.
Bringing High-energy X-rays into Better Focus
SLAC scientists have developed a new way to manufacture nanostructures, including precise focusing devices for X-rays.
X-ray Laser Measures Leaping Electrons
In an experiment at SLAC's X-ray laser, scientists split molecules into two fragments using pulses of infrared light, and then used X-ray pulses to observe the transfer of electrons.
Researchers Led by Stanford Engineer Figure Out How to Make More Efficient Fuel Cells
Using high-brilliance X-rays, researchers track the process that fuel cells use to produce electricity, knowledge that will help make large-scale alternative energy power systems more practical and reliable.
Learning the Ropes at SLAC’s Ultrafast X-ray Summer Seminar
At UXSS, 90 graduate students and postdocs from all over the world got a crash course in how to do research at X-ray lasers such as LCLS.
X-ray Laser Gives Buckyballs a Big Kick
Scientists at SLAC have been blowing up "buckyballs" – soccer-ball-shaped carbon molecules – with an X-ray laser to understand how they fly apart. The results, they say, will help them interpret X-ray images of tiny viruses, individual proteins and other important biomolecules.
Scientists Use X-rays to Look at How DNA Protects Itself from UV Light
DNA’s molecular building blocks absorb ultraviolet light so strongly that sunlight should deactivate them – yet it doesn’t. A new SLAC study reveals details of a “relaxation response” that protects these molecules and the genetic information they encode.
Scientists Take First Dip into Water’s Mysterious ‘No Man’s Land’
Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have made the first structural observations of liquid water at temperatures down to minus 51 degrees Fahrenheit, within an elusive “no man’s land” where water’s strange properties are super-amplified.
