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Job Seekers SLAC Staff Users Research Partners Media Suppliers SLAC Home Page COVID-19: Latest Information | Research at SLAC News SLAC’s Auralee Edelen and Noah Kurinsky receive prestigious DOE Early Career Awards Edelen draws on machine learning to fine tune particle accelerators, while Kurinsky develops dark matter detectors informed by quantum information science. Collaborations with small businesses spur progress for LCLS research at SLAC The Small Business Innovation Research Program brings government and private industry together to develop next-generation X-ray optics for LCLS-II. Q&A with Stephen Streiffer, the new Stanford VP for SLAC After decades of experience in the DOE lab system and as director of a leading synchrotron light source, he’s back to where he earned his PhD – with a much bigger mission. Researchers aim X-rays at century-old plant secretions for insight into Aboriginal Australian cultural heritage By revealing the chemistry of plant secretions, or exudates, these studies build a basis for better understanding and conserving art and tools made with plant materials. Superconductivity and charge density waves caught intertwining at the nanoscale Scientists discover superconductivity and charge density waves are intrinsically interconnected at t... SLAC’s superconducting X-ray laser reaches operating temperature colder than outer space The facility, LCLS-II, will soon sharpen our view of how nature works on ultrasmall, ultrafast scale... How a soil microbe could rev up artificial photosynthesis Researchers discover that a spot of molecular glue and a timely twist help a bacterial enzyme conver... What drives rechargeable battery decay? Depends on how many times you've charged it How quickly a battery electrode decays depends on properties of individual particles in the battery... San Jose State students study nanodiamonds at SLAC’s synchrotron A physical chemist and a diverse group of his students are working on applications with nanoscopic d... 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