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Study Provides Recipe for 'Supercharging' Atoms with X-ray Laser

Researchers using the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have found a way to strip most of the electrons from xenon atoms, creating a “supercharged,” strongly positive state at energies previously thought too low.

Carrying ‘Elephants’ and ‘Mice’ at the Speed of Light:

World’s fastest science network accelerates discovery and innovation.

New Titan Supercomputer Named Fastest in the World

System at Office of Science’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory Delivers Unprecedented Power to Accelerate Scientific Discoveries.

The many uses of Synchrotrons Presentation

The many uses of Synchrotrons, presentation by Dr. W. F. Brinkman, Director, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy.

You pick the winner in the Fermilab Arts & Lecture Series’ first Physics Slam on Nov. 16

On Nov. 16, five of Fermilab’s best and brightest will duke it out in the Fermilab Arts & Lecture Series’ first ever Physics Slam. It’s similar to a poetry slam – each of the five physicists will get 12 minutes to explain a complex scientific concept to the audience in the most clear and entertaining way possible.

Plants Multiply . . . But How Do They Add?

Brookhaven Lab shows how rapeseed plants ‘balance the books’.

ORNL Debuts Titan Supercomputer

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory launched a new era of scientific supercomputing with Titan, a system capable of churning through more than 20,000 trillion calculations each second—or 20 petaflops.

Profiting from Waste?

Researchers fashion a record-breaking material to recycle waste heat into electricity.

Essential Ingredients for Discovery and Innovation

Exceptional supercomputers – including Titan, the world's most powerful machine for open science – and the just-announced INCITE Awards.

Balancing Basic and Applied Research Presentation

Netherlands National Academy of Sciences, presentation by Dr. W. F. Brinkman, Director, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy.

Measuring Table-Top Accelerators’ State-of-the-Art Beams

Studies by Berkeley Lab scientists of electron beam quality in laser plasma accelerators include novel tests for slice-energy spread.

Chi-Chang Kao named SLAC director

Chi-Chang Kao, an associate laboratory director at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has been named as the lab's fifth director, Stanford University President John Hennessy announced today.