A tiny device invented at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will make it much easier for scientists to determine the structures of important, delicate proteins by greatly reducing the amount of protein needed for study.

Solar, wind and other renewable energy sources reduce consumption of fossil fuels but also pose challenges to the electrical grid because their power generation fluctuates, heightening the need for better battery technology to store their energy until it's needed to...

One way to make magnetic storage drives faster would be to use light to flip the polarity of tiny patches of material, called magnetic domains, back and forth – from 0 to 1 and back again, in computing terms.

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.

A team of Stanford University researchers used the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource to gain a deeper understanding of a vital family of signaling proteins responsible for regulating an organism’s development and growth, as well as tissue regeneration and wound healing.

Synchrotrons played a key role in the research that won Brian Kobilka, a professor and chair of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at the Stanford School of Medicine, the 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday.

The success of SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray free-electron laser project, which opened to users in 2009 with plans for expansion already well under way, hasn't gone unnoticed.

The search for dark matter runs deep with physicists Blas Cabrera and Bernard Sadoulet, who have chased this mystery far underground and will be recognized for their work as joint recipients of the 2013 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle...

Understanding why proteins interact with certain specific molecules and not with the myriad others in their environment is a major goal of molecular biology.

SLAC Professor Emeritus Helen Quinn has been chosen to receive the 2013 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, awarded each year by the American Physical Society “to recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in particle theory.”