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August 13, 2012

World's Most Powerful X-ray Laser Beam Refined to Scalpel Precision

Menlo Park, Calif. — With a thin sliver of diamond, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have transformed the ...

August 6, 2012

Extreme Plasma Theories Put to the Test

Menlo Park, Calif. — The first controlled studies of extremely hot, dense matter have overthrown the widely accepted 50-year-old model used to explain how ions ...

June 27, 2012

X-ray Vision Exposes Aerosol Structures

Menlo Park, Calif. — Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have captured the most detailed images to date of ...

NEWS FEATURES
October 12, 2012

Synchrotrons Play Role in Nobel Prize Research

Synchrotrons played a key role in the research that won Brian Kobilka, a professor and chair of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at the Stanford School ...

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October 11, 2012

LCLS-II Project Director John Galayda to Receive Wilson Prize

The success of SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray free-electron laser project, which opened to users in 2009 with plans for expansion already well under ...

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October 3, 2012

Using Light to Switch Off Magnetism

One way to make magnetic storage drives faster would be to use light to flip the polarity of tiny patches of material, called magnetic domains, ...

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