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.

Scientists directly observed tiny lattice deformations in quantum dots caused by electron-hole pairs, key for advancing solar cells and LEDs. (Nanowerk News) When light hits solar cells, so-called ...

Pachycephalosaurus is one of the six pets available in the Primal Egg that was added to Grow a Garden as part of the Pet Mutation update. This launched on July 12, 2025. If you're hoping to add the ...

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (at Stanford University), and others have created what they describe as “the ...

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has created the brightest X-ray source to date, by directing the laser of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) onto ultra-light metal foams. Reported ...

Scientists could soon probe the secrets of the smallest particles in the world in more detail than ever before following a major upgrade of the most powerful laser of its kind in the world. The U.S.

Researchers will be able to analyze chemical compounds and atoms in greater detail than ever before using the brightest, clearest laser of its kind anywhere in the world When you purchase through ...

MENLO PARK, Calif. (KGO) -- The world's most powerful X-ray laser is located at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the Bay Area, and it's about to become even more powerful. According to Mike ...

LCLS-II-HE is the second upgrade in as many years for a laser beam in Menlo Park, California, that reveals some of nature's most microscopic mysteries in sharp detail. Reading time 3 minutes A new ...

In a few picoseconds (trillionths of a second), a small, thin piece of copper momentarily becomes dense plasma, specifically a state called warm dense matter, warm being a relative term – the metal is ...