Accelerator physicist Agostino Marinelli discusses how SLAC's X-ray laser makes femtosecond light.

Ryan Coffee, scientist at the Linac Coherent Light Source, explains in a video interview.

Physicist Phil Bucksbaum gives a brief introduction to Femtosecond Week at SLAC.

SLAC celebrates five days of ultrafast science.

Join us for five days of ultrafast science from April 17 to 21.

Z-X Shen, SLAC science and technology advisor, professor of photon science and of physics, and a senior fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy, is among 11 Stanford faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

TIMES applies the power of theory to the search for novel materials with remarkable properties that could revolutionize technology.

Two astrophysicists and a theoretical physicist discuss how the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will probe the nature of dark matter and dark energy by taking an unprecedentedly enormous scan of the sky.

The study at SLAC’s X-ray laser was a step toward understanding how DNA defends itself from breakage and potential mutations.

X-ray studies have produced surprising insights into the workings of a hormone receptor associated with blood pressure regulation that could be a target for new medicines related to cardiovascular conditions, neuropathic pain and tissue growth.