Behind the scenes of the world’s greatest motion picture
A complete image of the southern sky will be stitched together every few days for 10 years, creating a stop-motion movie of tens of billions of stars and galaxies.
Secretary of Energy celebrates X-ray laser upgrade
Jennifer Granholm and other U.S. Department of Energy officials toured SLAC’s labs last week and joined President Saller in a toast to “first light” at LCLS-II.
As KIPAC celebrates 20 years, its future is bright
As the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology celebrates its 20th anniversary, its scientists look forward to new telescopes and unprecedented volumes of data.
The world’s most powerful X-ray laser ushers in a new era of science
With up to a million X-ray flashes per second (8,000 times more than its predecessor), LCLS-II transforms the ability of scientists to explore atomic-scale, ultrafast phenomena that are key to a broad range of applications, from quantum materials to clean energy technologies and medicine.