Cosmic inflation refers to a period of rapid, accelerated expansion that scientists think took place about 14 billion years ago.

Science Wonderland at AT&T Park Features Two SLAC Exhibits

Ultimate Goal: A Super-efficient Way to Conduct Electricity at Room Temperature

Four-day Event Includes Presentations by Nobel Prize Winners, Other Science Luminaries

SLAC scientists are among the researchers to receive funding to advance solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy.

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

From 'Hollow' Atoms to Structures Inside Living Cells, SLAC's Laser Continues to Explore Science at the Extremes

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.