The Department of Energy has awarded two Stanford scientists funding through the agency’s Early Career Research Program.

Physicist Rick Field discusses physics, Hollywood and a recent appearance by his sister, actress Sally Field, on the Late Show with David Letterman.

US scientists collaborated with an international team to install a new component in the core of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider.

Understanding the origins of our solar system, the future of our planet or humanity requires complex calculations run on high-power computers.

After working with particle accelerators his entire professional career, Heather Rock Woods’ father placed himself in the path of a beam to fight cancer.

Differences between two types of black-hole-powered galaxies may reflect a change in how the galaxies extract energy from their central black holes.

Students estimate their way through pop culture problems to learn a life skill.

A new result from the Large Hadron Collider strengthens the case that the Higgs interacts with both types of particles in the Standard Model.

The Open Science Grid enables faster, more efficient analysis of LHC data—and also contributes to advancements in fields from geology to medicine.

The 30-ton MicroBooNE detector, the cornerstone of Fermilab’s short-baseline neutrino program, will see neutrinos this year.

Efforts are already underway to ensure that the data the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope  collects will be ready to be mined for scientific gold.

Grad Students and Postdocs Get a Crash Course in Using X-ray Lasers