Astronomers using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have made the most accurate measurement of starlight in the universe and used it to...

Two scientists from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology have been testing a method to look past the intense radiation pouring out...

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'...

After decades of experience in the DOE lab system and as director of a leading synchrotron light source, he’s back to where he earned...

The lab’s signature particle highway prepares to enter another era of transformative science as the home of the LCLS-II X-ray laser.

Along with lectures, poster sessions, discussions, and the traditional SLAC vs. SSI soccer game, the 160 attendees from five continents who converged on SLAC...

Energy Secretary Bill Richardson today joined leading scientists from around the world at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) to dedicate a state-of-the-art research...

A sophisticated new "particle smasher" at Stanford University built to explore the difference between matter and antimatter came to life this week with the...

An experiment and a detailed design study recently have opened the way to the development of an x-ray laser.

A collaboration of astrophysicists from the Department of Defense's Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), and particle physicists from the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator...

Multimillion Dollar Investment to Increase Understanding of Disease and Help Develop New Pharmaceuticals

Eva Silverstein, a theoretical physicist whose studies have provided interesting new ideas about the nature of the universe, is one of this year's MacArthur...