RT @PhysicsMagazine: Researchers have observed electrons changing places in a chemical reaction on the timescale of the electrons’ movement….

Upgraded X-ray Laser Science: Capturing Electron Motion. Our X-ray laser can capture & map an electron's movement in billionths of a billionth of a second, leading to future energy technologies, faster electronics, & advanced medical applications:

Caught the whole shebang ⚛️. For the 1st time, scientists have imaged the motion of an electron throughout an entire chemical reaction, helping us better understand fundamental chemistry. How did they do it? X-ray scattering & femtosecond time scales:

RT @asalleo: Nice story on our work on devices for brain-like computing and interfacing them with living matter + a plug for materials scie….

Brain-like computing 🧠💻 . At @Stanford, SLAC Deputy Director for Science and Technology Alberto Salleo's lab (@asalleo) is creating artificial synapses to replicate the brain’s efficiency and learning capacity in computing systems. Read more:

Swirly whirly fancy beams 🌀 . A SLAC-led team used a free-electron laser to generate a highly customized type of light beam, called a Poincaré beam, for the first time! This could drive advancements in high-performance tech, like next-gen computer chips:

RT @StanfordEnergy: New X-ray laser toolkit advances study of nature’s mysteries. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's upgraded LCLS-II X….

RT @VRubinObs: NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory (left) and its Auxiliary Telescope (right) are better together! 🤞😎 . AuxTel repeatedly observes we….

#ICYMI the origin story of the world’s largest digital camera (that recently revealed its first images) as told by lead mechanical engineer Travis Lange is available here:

🛞 MRCO is an array of 16 electron detectors that can pinpoint the moment an electron is ejected from a molecule and measure the subsequent energy spectrum. 🔬 DREAM is a powerful reaction microscope that allows researchers to construct a molecular movie of the reaction.

🌡️ qRIX features a 12-foot spectrometer that swivels 160 degrees, good for studying the quantum dynamics of solid crystalline materials and high temperature superconductors. 🧪 ChemRIX is tailored to analyze the chemistry of liquid samples.

Meet the new instruments on the block…at the world’s most powerful X-ray laser!. DREAM, MRCO, qRIX and ChemRIX are expanding our capabilities and making more science possible. Find out how:🧵

Seeing molecules break and form bonds ⚛️. SLAC Scientists using the @EuropeanXFEL in Germany have observed the real-time formation of new bonds in molecules using extremely short X-ray flashes:

RT @StanfordEnergy: New temperature measurement method advances fusion research. Researchers at @SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have….

Next-gen Higgs boson research 💻 . An innovative machine-learning tool is helping a team of young physicists narrow in on a rare and messy decay of the Higgs boson, bringing a once ‘Impossible’ measurement within reach:

Diamonds + unexpected gold compound 💎 ⭐ . An international research team led by SLAC scientists expected to form diamonds under extreme pressure & heat at the European X-ray free-electron laser, but they also created solid gold hydride! Learn more:

RT @NNSANews: Happy Birthday, @ENERGY! 🎂 🎉 On this day in 1977, President Carter signed the Department of Energy Organization Act, formally….

A 5.5 ft entrance lens, 3.2 Giga-pixel resolution, & high precision built into each pixel. Learn how we designed & assembled a digital camera the size of a small car 🚗 at this week's #SLACPublicLecture Aug. 7. Registration is full, so tune in virtually!

🥇 ☄️ 🧑‍🚀 🧲 . Solid gold, interstellar comets, first science and magnetic forces. These are just some of the stories of SLAC this past month that you can catch up on in our monthly newsletter, Signals - out now!

www.Happy #WorldWideWebDay! 🌐 . The World Wide Web was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 at @CERN. But #DYK that the first web server outside of Europe was hosted at SLAC? For us, the web was born here in 1991, on this NeXT computer.