William Atwood, a leading member of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope collaboration, will receive the 2012 W. K. H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics from the American Physical Society for his work as co-designer of the Large Area Telescope...

Up close, they look simple as can be: a pair of metal bars, each with one side polished to a brilliant shine.

Scientists at Stanford and SLAC have found a potential way to harness the amazing properties of topological insulators – materials that conduct electricity only along their surfaces – for use in electronics and other applications.

The world's first X-ray laser is not only a true laser, but it’s an extremely good one

A technique SLAC scientists invented for scanning ancient manuscripts is now being used to probe the human brain, in research that could lead to new medical imaging methods and better treatments for stroke and other brain conditions.

Diamonds can add more than sparkle and style to X-ray experiments at the Linac Coherent Light Source.

The strength, flexibility, transparency and high electrical conductivity of single-layer graphene make it a potentially unique and valuable material for the next generation of electronic devices.

The strength of a chemical bond between atoms is the fundamental basis for a molecule’s stability and reactivity.

Proteins are jittery things – continually moving, flopping around and waving their molecular arms.

By finding a clever way to use the Earth itself as a scientific instrument, members of a SLAC-led research team turned the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope into a positron detector – and confirmed a startling discovery from 2009 that found...