In a two-day event commemorating the 50th anniversary of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, about 1,000 employees, former employees and university, government and scientific leaders celebrated the lab's successes and looked ahead to the next great challenges.

In the early 1960s, a two-and-a-half-mile-long strip of land in the rolling hills west of Stanford University was transformed into fertile ground for physicists' dreams.

Tom Cahill and his colleagues at the DELTA Group are frequent visitors to the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, where they use Beam Line 2-2 to help them determine detailed lists of the elements found in all sorts of unlikely samples.

A superhard mixture of crushed carbon spheres and a hydrocarbon solvent is the world’s first hybrid crystalline/amorphous material.

In the first of an occasional series of articles profiling companies that supply or use SLAC facilities, we look at Pleasanton-based Xradia, Inc., which designs and makes innovative X-ray microscopes.

Sandwiched among the many lengthy technical titles for experiments conducted at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser, one stood out for its two-word simplicity, spelled out in all caps: "GIANT VIRUSES."

Researchers from two SLAC-Stanford joint institutes, the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) and the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, recently joined forces to investigate a catalyst that promotes energy-releasing reactions in fuel cells.

'Self-seeding' promises to speed discoveries, add new scientific capabilities

SLAC theorist Stan Brodsky and his collaborator Xing-Gang Wu of Chongqing University have just made the lives

Menlo Park, Calif. — The first controlled studies of extremely hot, dense matter have overthrown the widely accepted 50-year-old model used to explain how ions influence each other’s behavior in a dense plasma.