After years of design and construction, the world's brightest X-ray machine has come to life at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the hills near Stanford University.

Tagged: SLAC, Humanities & Sciences

A high-energy x-ray beam will be one of the fastest and sharpest cameras on earth when it is turned on this summer.  This will bring new insights into how solar cells convert light to electricity and how nanoscale materials transform.

 

 

Tagged: nanoscale, SLAC, On Campus, Engineering

About three times a second, the rotating corpse of a 10,000-year-old star sweeps a beam of gamma rays toward Earth. This object, known as a pulsar, is the first one known to "blink" at Earth only in gamma rays, and was discovered by an orbiting observatory launched in June with significant involvement from researchers at Stanford and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

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A new name has been selected for the laboratory formerly known as the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and portions of it have a familiar ring. The official title now is the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Tagged: SLAC, On Campus

The next major space observatory, GLAST, is about to begin gathering new information about subatomic particles, black holes, and the birth and evolution of the universe.

Tagged: satellite, SLAC, space, On Campus