Experiments have helped explain some of the imbalance between matter and antimatter in the universe, but not all of it. Now a SLAC theorist and his colleagues have laid out a possible method for determining if the Higgs boson is...

A new experiment  is on the hunt for dark photons, hypothetical messengers of an invisible universe.

Burton Richter, Nobel laureate and director emeritus of SLAC, has received the National Medal of Science – the nation's highest honor for achievement in the field of science.

Forty years ago, two different research groups announced the discovery of the same new particle and redefined how physicists view the universe.

Astrophysicists inspire space-related projects at a 24-hour hack-a-thon in San Francisco.

The Medal is the Nation's Highest Honor for Achievement in the Field of Science

Martin L. Perl, a professor emeritus of physics at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in physics for discovery of the tau lepton, died Sept. 30 at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto...

CERN celebrates six decades of peaceful collaboration for science.

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

Physicists and other scientists use the GEANT4 toolkit to identify problems before they occur.

A team of scientists generated a giant cosmic simulation—and now they're giving it away.

Brian Greene welcomes the Internet to physics class with World Science U.