The synchrotron light source community is a large one – about 70 facilities exist around the world – but the men and women who run them are like an extended family.

In repeatedly and systematically surveying the sky with deep, large-field-of-view images in six optical color bands on a 3 billion pixel camera for years, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will home in on the nature of dark energy and increase...

In a home-grown version of a TED talk – famous for presenting “Ideas Worth Spreading” in exactly 18 minutes – SLAC’s Uwe Bergmann took an audience at Palo Alto’s Gunn High School on a wild ride through the Linac Coherent...

It was front page news around the world: a drug designed to disrupt malignant melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, was so successful in its latest round of testing in humans that the tests were halted – like an...

From their seats in the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, visitors swoop through a redwood forest, into a single redwood leaf and finally into an individual cell to watch photosynthesis take place.

The Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC is the world’s first hard X-ray free-electron laser, or FEL, and one of the most complex light sources ever developed.

Menlo Park, Calif.--Scientists report today that they have taken a big step in determining what the first birds looked like more than 100 million years ago, when their relatives, the dinosaurs, still ruled the Earth.

A new SLAC test facility has passed two important milestones and is gearing up for experiments aimed at dramatically shrinking the size and cost of future particle accelerators.

Stanford physicist Matt Bellis deals in the infinitesimal. As a member of the BaBar collaboration based at SLAC, he studies what happens when an electron and a positron collide at certain energies.

The latest report on SESAME, a synchrotron light source that will be the first big international science center in the Middle East, says it is progressing both technically and financially on the road to its scheduled opening in 2015.