The physicists of antiquity called it one of nature's fundamental elements; third-graders know its chemical formula; and all known forms of life need it to exist. Yet what water really is – at least in its liquid form – is...

"The light shines brilliantly these days at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL). The start up of SSRL's new synchrotron light facility, SPEAR3, guarantees a world-class program in x-ray science for years to come," said U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer...

Batavia, Ill.—The worldwide particle physics community today (August 12) launched Interactions.org, a new global, Web-based resource developed to provide news, high-quality imagery, video and other tools for communicating the science of particle physics.

Physicist Antimo Palano representing the BABAR experiment presented the evidence for the identification of a new subatomic particle named Ds (2317) to a packed auditorium on Monday 28th April at the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).

Transmit 6.7 Gigabytes of data — the data equivalent of 4 hours of DVD-quality movies — across 7000 miles in less than a minute? Can do.

Physicist Fred Kavli and the Kavli Foundation have pledged $7.5 million to establish an institute that will focus on recent developments in astrophysics, high-energy physics and cosmology.

Washington D.C -- The Deutsches-Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany's leading particle physics and synchrotron radiation laboratory, and the U.S. Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), have signed a laboratory-to-laboratory Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a unique international collaboration for...

The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) celebrated 40 years of outstanding research into fundamental particle physics and synchrotron radiation with a special anniversary event on Oct. 2.

Keith O. Hodgson has been named a recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ernest O. Lawrence Award for 2002. Hodgson is a professor of chemistry at Stanford University and at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) and is director...

Ordinary alfalfa plants are being used as miniature gold factories that one day could provide the nanotechnology industry with a continuous harvest of gold nanoparticles.