Chi-­Chang Kao, an associate laboratory director at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has been named as the lab's fifth director, Stanford University President John Hennessy announced today.

A team of Stanford University researchers used the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource to gain a deeper understanding of a vital family of signaling proteins responsible for regulating an organism’s development and growth, as well as tissue regeneration and wound healing.

Synchrotrons played a key role in the research that won Brian Kobilka, a professor and chair of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at the Stanford School of Medicine, the 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday.

The success of SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray free-electron laser project, which opened to users in 2009 with plans for expansion already well under way, hasn't gone unnoticed.

The search for dark matter runs deep with physicists Blas Cabrera and Bernard Sadoulet, who have chased this mystery far underground and will be recognized for their work as joint recipients of the 2013 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle...

Understanding why proteins interact with certain specific molecules and not with the myriad others in their environment is a major goal of molecular biology.

SLAC Professor Emeritus Helen Quinn has been chosen to receive the 2013 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, awarded each year by the American Physical Society “to recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in particle theory.”

Two enthusiastic Congressional supporters of scientific research, U.S. Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Palo Alto) and Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose), and a panel of scientist-entrepreneurs who have benefitted from research at Bay Area light sources headlined a Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG)...

Accelerator physicists at SLAC have started commissioning the world’s most compact photoinjector – a device that spits out electrons when hit by light.

A small team of researchers has used the brilliant X-rays of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory to pin down the crystalline structure of an enzyme complex that scientists had spent nearly a decade trying to resolve.