It's one thing to design and build a brand-new piece of technology, to test it and tune it until it works just right.

The spectacular success of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world’s first hard X-ray free-electron laser, has put SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at the frontier of photon science.

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Tom Devereaux, a professor of photon science at SLAC and Stanford University, has been appointed director of SIMES, the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences.

More than 100 science students from 20 Bay Area high schools converged on the lab Saturday to compete in the annual Science Bowl competition at SLAC. Led by their coaches, 120 students faced questions testing their knowledge of astronomy, biology...

Accelerator physicists at SLAC and cancer specialists from Stanford are working on a new technology that could dramatically reduce the time needed for cancer radiation treatments.

About 50 new aerial photos of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have been added to the lab’s Flickr photostream.

Many advanced laser technologies, such as laser spectroscopy, that use precise wavelengths of infrared, visible or ultraviolet laser light could benefit from using X-ray light as well.

Scientists have found a way to distort the atomic arrangement and change the magnetic properties of an important class of electronic materials with ultra-short pulses of terahertz (mid-infrared) laser light without heating the material up.

Ph.D. candidate Keith Bechtol, who’s been researching gamma-ray astronomy at SLAC and doing educational outreach as a public tour guide, is just as committed to his running – though if you asked, he would tell you without hesitation that being...