The world’s second-fastest supercomputer is no longer just a symbol of raw computational power, it is now a central character in a high-stakes effort to reinvent how nuclear reactors are designed, ...

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.

Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never ...