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SLAC Steps Up to the Plate at Bay Area Science Festival
SLAC will participate in Discovery Days at AT&T Park – the concluding highlight of the fourth annual Bay Area Science Festival.
Puzzling New Behavior Found in High-Temperature Superconductors
Research led by SLAC and Stanford scientists has uncovered a new, unpredicted behavior in a copper oxide material that conducts electricity without any loss at relatively high temperatures.
New Directors, New Science Share Spotlight at Annual Meeting and Workshops
Nobel Prize-winning scientists and other prominent researchers, including new directors for SLAC's X-ray laser and synchrotron, gave talks during an Oct. 7-10 event.
Stanford's GCEP Awards $10.5 Million for Research on Renewable Energy
SLAC scientists are among the researchers to receive funding to advance solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy.
Symmetry: Science Hack Day
Astrophysicists inspire space-related projects at a 24-hour hack-a-thon in San Francisco.
Five Years of Scientific Discoveries with SLAC's LCLS
Since the success of its inaugural experiment five years ago, thousands of scientists have used SLAC's X-ray laser to probe previously unreachable extremes in fields ranging from biology to astrophysics.
Study Reveals 'Bellhops' in Cell Walls Can Double as Hormones
Researchers have discovered that some common messenger molecules in human cells double as hormones when joined to a protein that interacts with DNA.
SLAC Director Emeritus and Nobelist Burton Richter to Receive National Medal of Science
Burton Richter, Nobel laureate and director emeritus at SLAC, has been selected by President Obama to receive the National Medal of Science – the nation's highest honor for achievement in the field of science.
Martin L. Perl, Winner of 1995 Nobel Prize for Discovery of Tau Lepton, Dead at 87
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 at the age of 87.
Symmetry: Accelerating the Fight Against Cancer
As charged-particle therapies grow in popularity, physicists are working with other experts to make them smaller, cheaper and more effective—and more available to cancer patients in the United States.
