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...

Exploring fundamental composition of the universe

President Clinton today named Sidney Drell as a winner of the Enrico Fermi Award, given for a lifetime of achievement in the field of...

The award acknowledged the on-time, on-budget completion of the $293 million B Factory Project.

Using high-intensity lasers, scientists hope to simulate a black hole event horizon in a laboratory, something that has never been done before.