The lab moved away from high energy physics. Early experiments are described as diffract before destroy. Until recently, Persis Drell was director of SLAC.

Seventy years after scientists first proposed such an experiment, researchers from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln have shown light waves can diffract or bend a beam of electrons. The study ...

Fresnel lenses are often used with classic lighthouse lamps due to their ability to diffract light across large distances. [Related: NASA’s next massive telescope could have a liquid lens.] ...

News & Views Published: July 2008 X-ray imaging Ultrafast diffract-and-destroy movies John Spence Nature Photonics 2, 390–391 (2008) Cite this article ...

The small water droplets in the pileus cloud diffract sunlight, a process known as iridescence, giving off the pastel colors in the image. Conditions must be just right.

This animation depicts the common X-ray tools and LCLS. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or ...

Plants absorb, diffract and reflect sound. The balance varies with the frequency at which the sound is generated and the room's physical properties. By Kenneth Freeman Head of Innovation, Ambius ...

Light, sound, and now, heat -- just as optical invisibility cloaks can bend and diffract light to shield an object from sight, and specially fabricated acoustic metamaterials can hide an object ...