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Stanford physicist Matt Bellis deals in the infinitesimal. As a member of the BaBar collaboration based at SLAC, he studies what happens when an electron and a positron collide at certain energies.

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Menlo Park, Calif. — Researchers working at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have used the world’s most powerful X-ray laser to create and probe a 2-million-degree piece of matter in a controlled way for the...

Fifteen years ago, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) scientist Apurva Mehta volunteered to help a friend build beamline parts at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL). Today, he's "still mucking around with beamlines."

Menlo Park, Calif.--Scientists report today that they have taken a big step in determining what the first birds looked like more than 100 million years ago, when their relatives, the dinosaurs, still ruled the Earth.

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SLAC in the Batter's Box as 30,000 at AT&T Park Cap Off 2012 Bay Area Science Festival. One week after the San Francisco Giants won the World Series, a crowd of more than 30,000 took over AT&T Park for "Discovery...

If you like your science with a cup of coffee, a pint of beer or a raucous crowd, these events may be for you.

A possible sign of dark matter will eventually become clear, according to promising signs from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment.

SSRL protein crystallography expert joined research effort that could lead to a safe and effective alternative to chemotherapy.

Particle physicists and scientists from other disciplines are finding ways to help one another answer critical questions.