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Newswise: A Modular Neutrino Detector Years in the Making
Released: 30-Sep-2024 12:05 PM EDT
A Modular Neutrino Detector Years in the Making
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The prototype DUNE 2x2 detector will capture up to 10,000 neutrino interactions per day. Researchers developed the new detector and advanced machine learning techniques to probe what all those neutrinos are up to.

Newswise: New Upgrade Will Supercharge Atomic Vision of the World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser
23-Sep-2024 6:00 PM EDT
New Upgrade Will Supercharge Atomic Vision of the World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The Department of Energy (DOE) has given the green light for construction to begin on a high-energy upgrade that will further boost the performance of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world’s most powerful X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) at the DOE’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. When complete, the upgrade will allow scientists to explore atomic-scale processes with unprecedented precision and address fundamental questions in energy storage, catalysis, biology, materials science and quantum physics like never before.

Newswise: SLAC-led Energy Frontier Research Center awarded $14.4 million to advance new manufacturing solutions for microelectronics
Released: 4-Sep-2024 3:05 PM EDT
SLAC-led Energy Frontier Research Center awarded $14.4 million to advance new manufacturing solutions for microelectronics
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Funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the Center for Energy Efficient Magnonics brings together a multidisciplinary group of researchers from SLAC and seven universities to discover how components of microelectronics can be built on spin waves that arise from magnetism.

Newswise: Researchers discover a surprising way to jump-start battery performance
Released: 29-Aug-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Researchers discover a surprising way to jump-start battery performance
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

In a study published today in Joule, researchers at the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center report that giving batteries their first charge at unusually high currents increased their average lifespan by 50% while decreasing the initial charging time from 10 hours to just 20 minutes.

15-Aug-2024 2:00 PM EDT
Researchers observe “locked” electron pairs in a superconductor cuprate
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The finding could help future efforts to design superconductors that work at higher temperatures.

Released: 10-Jul-2024 2:45 PM EDT
SLAC’s high-speed electron camera uncovers a new ‘light-twisting’ behavior in an ultrathin material
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Using SLAC’s instrument for ultrafast electron diffraction (MeV-UED), one of the lab’s world-leading tools for ultrafast science, researchers discovered how an ultrathin material can circularly polarize light. This discovery sets up a promising approach to manipulate light for applications in optoelectronic devices.

Newswise: SLAC researchers pioneer new methods in ultrafast science for sharper molecular movies
Released: 5-Jul-2024 1:05 PM EDT
SLAC researchers pioneer new methods in ultrafast science for sharper molecular movies
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Improvements to the lab’s “electron camera” use AI and “time stamping” to help reveal nature’s speedy processes more accurately.

Released: 11-Jun-2024 12:05 PM EDT
A novel spray device helps researchers capture fast-moving cell processes
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Researchers figured out how to spray and freeze a cell sample in its natural state in milliseconds, helping them capture basic biological processes in unprecedented detail.

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1-Apr-2024 3:05 PM EDT
SLAC Completes Construction of the Largest Digital Camera Ever Built for Astronomy
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After two decades of work, scientists and engineers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and their collaborators are celebrating the completion of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera.

Released: 27-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Scientists propose a new way to search for dark matter
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

In a new study, SLAC researchers suggest a small-scale solution could be the key to solving a large-scale mystery.

Newswise: SLAC scientists explain: What is inertial fusion energy?
Released: 21-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
SLAC scientists explain: What is inertial fusion energy?
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Following ignition demonstrations at the National Ignition Facility, the prospect of developing a fusion energy source using lasers looks brighter than ever. Here, SLAC experts weigh in on what it will take to develop the science and technology toward that aim and how the lab and its partners will contribute.

Newswise: A battery’s hopping ions remember where they’ve been
Released: 15-Feb-2024 1:15 PM EST
A battery’s hopping ions remember where they’ve been
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists discover that ions hopping through a battery electrolyte can reverse direction in response to a jolt of voltage and briefly return to their previous positions – .the first indication that the ions remembered, in a sense, where they had just been.

Released: 24-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
Researchers add a ‘twist’ to classical material design
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Researchers with the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University and the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) grew a twisted multilayer crystal structure for the first time and measured the structure’s key properties.

Newswise: Researchers release solar power data software to increase clean energy generation
Released: 17-Jan-2024 1:05 PM EST
Researchers release solar power data software to increase clean energy generation
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The software tool sorts through messy data to reveal what’s really going on with solar panels on cloudy and sunny days.

Released: 5-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
A day in the life of a mountaintop telescope builder
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Margaux Lopez is one of a team of engineers preparing the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile for the arrival of the largest digital camera ever built for astrophysics and cosmology.

Newswise: SLAC brings rapid-fire laser and target expertise to national fusion energy research hubs
Released: 7-Dec-2023 3:05 PM EST
SLAC brings rapid-fire laser and target expertise to national fusion energy research hubs
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The lab will partner in two collaborations – one led by Colorado State University and the other by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – as part of a DOE-funded effort to speed up progress in fusion energy science and technology.

Newswise: Researchers show an old law still holds for quirky quantum materials
Released: 30-Nov-2023 2:05 PM EST
Researchers show an old law still holds for quirky quantum materials
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

An 170-year-old law describing the ratio of heat conductivity to electronic conductivity in metals was thought not to apply to quantum materials. Now theoretical physicists suggest that the Wiedemann-Franz law does, in fact, apply to one class of quantum materials -- the copper oxides, or cuprates.

Newswise: How tiny hinges bend the infection-spreading spikes of a coronavirus
Released: 14-Nov-2023 9:05 AM EST
How tiny hinges bend the infection-spreading spikes of a coronavirus
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Far from being stiff and pointy, a coronavirus’s infectious spikes are shaped like chicken drumsticks with the meaty part facing out, and the meaty part can tilt every which way on its slender stalk. A tiny hinge makes that bendiness possible, and scientists say disabling that hinge could be a good way to thwart infection.

Released: 13-Nov-2023 2:05 PM EST
Researchers aim to make cheaper fuel cells a reality
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The team reduced the amount of expensive platinum group metals needed to make an effective cell and found a new way to test future fuel cell innovations.

Newswise: Physicists ask: Can we make a particle collider more energy efficient?
Released: 3-Nov-2023 1:05 PM EDT
Physicists ask: Can we make a particle collider more energy efficient?
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The future of experimental particle physics is exciting – and energy intensive. SLAC physicists are thinking about how to make one proposal, the Cool Copper Collider, more sustainable.



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