SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, a state-owned entity headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States, was founded in 1962 and operates as a federally funded research and development center, originally named the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
On April 30, 2026, Tony Tyson, founding director of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, was included in the 2026 TIME100, recognizing his foundational vision for the observatory. This followed the April 29 return to service of the X-ray Pump Probe (XPP) instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) after a complete rebuild, preparing it for the increased X-ray output from LCLS's ongoing high-energy upgrade at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Earlier on April 29, researchers published an article in *Nature Photonics* exploring how megaelectronvolt (MeV) electron pulses induce sub-10 picosecond optical changes in semiconductors through bandgap modulation, enabling high-resolution radiation detection and advancing ultrafast optoelectronic sensing. On April 28, physicists announced a new AI technique for Coulomb explosion imaging that rebuilds initial molecular structures from exploding ion fragments, addressing previously computing-intensive and slow calculations. Previously, on April 11, scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in collaboration with Harvard University and Brigham Young University, utilized the Stanford-SLAC Cryo-EM Center to capture, for the first time, the formation of an immune signaling complex inside intact human cells.
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