When new faculty arrive at the university—step off the bus, hoist their duffle bags over their shoulders and stare in wonder at the palm trees and short-sleeved shirts—the rest of the Stanford community may be forgiven for not noticing their...

Plans by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) to build a revolutionary new synchrotron X-ray source received a major boost this year thanks to $54 million in funding provided by Congress in the fiscal 2005 budget appropriation.

Researchers at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) and the German laboratory Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung (BESSY) have crafted a technique to take X-ray images that reveal tiny variations and lightning-quick changes in materials a thousand times smaller than the...

The director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center remains "an enthusiastic champion" of the proposed International Linear Collider, despite a recent decision by a scientific panel recommending the adoption of a German technology for the ILC instead of one proposed...

A string of recent discoveries in astronomy has left scientists with an unsettling realization: The stuff we know and understand makes up less than 5 percent of the universe.

Today, physicists conducting the BaBar experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), a Department of Energy laboratory operated by Stanford University, announced exciting new results demonstrating a dramatic difference in the behavior of matter and antimatter.

If the laws of physics were precisely the same for matter and antimatter, you wouldn't be reading this. All matter, as we know it, would have been converted into light after the Big Bang.

The speed of magnetic recording – a crucial factor in a computer's power and multimedia capabilities – depends on how fast one can switch a magnet’s poles.

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...