Discovery at SLAC's Synchrotron Could Lead to New Drug Designs, Treatments

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...

As charged-particle therapies grow in popularity, physicists are working with other experts to make them smaller, cheaper and more effective—and m

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

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

System Studied at SLAC's Synchrotron Mimics Steps in Photosynthesis

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

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Rapid Charging and Draining Doesn’t Damage Lithium Ion Electrode as Much as Thought

Zhirong Huang, Bill Fawley and Erik Hemsing Honored at Annual Free-electron Laser Conference

By observing how hydrogen is absorbed into individual palladium nanocubes, Stanford materials scientists have detailed a key step in storing energy and information in nanomaterials.