Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...

Water is all around us, yet its surface layer—home to chemical reactions that shape life on Earth—is surprisingly hard to study. Experiments at SLAC's X-ray laser are bringing it into focus.

Laser-produced plasmas are plasmas produced by firing high-intensity beams of light. Laser-produced plasmas have been used to create short bursts of x-rays and to accelerate particles — so-called ...

The demonstration of lasing at 1.5 Å at the LCLS facility in the US marks an important landmark for free electron lasers. The short, ultra-bright pulses that the LCLS generates will allow ...