SLAC and Stanford scientists have set a world record for energy storage, using a clever “yolk-shell” design to store five times more energy in the sulfur cathode of a rechargeable lithium-ion battery than is possible with today’s commercial technology. The...

Research at SLAC's powerful X-ray laser that could lead to the development of specialized drugs to better combat African sleeping sickness has been recognized by Science magazine as one of the nine runners-up to its selected science "Breakthrough of the...

Each year, the editors of Physics World select what they consider the top 10 breakthroughs in the world of physics.

Menlo Park, Calif. – Scientists have used powerful X-rays from the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to study and measure, in atomic detail, a key process at work in...

Shoucheng Zhang, a condensed matter theorist with the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, a joint SLAC-Stanford institute, has been named one of five recipients of a 2013 Physics Frontiers Prize for his work on topological insulators.

X-rays Pinpoint Drug Target for Bacteria that Affect Hundreds of Millions Worldwide

SLAC and Stanford will join a team that will receive $120 million from the DOE to establish a new batteries and energy storage hub – the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR).

Menlo Park, Calif. — An international group of scientists working at the Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has mapped a weak spot in the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness, pinpointing a promising new target for treating...

Richard "Dick" Barr Neal, a key figure in the design, construction and operation of SLAC's 2-mile-long linear accelerator, died Nov. 22, 2012 in Solana Beach, Calif., at age 95.

Coating the surface of a material with a single layer of diamond-like crystals greatly improves images of it taken with an electron microscope, according to a study led by scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University.