News releases

For five days in May, the ancient collided with the ultra-modern at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), bringing brilliant, long-hidden ideas to light with brilliant X-ray light.

On May 24, Jonathan Dorfan, director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), announced a complete reorganization of the structure and senior management of the laboratory, which Stanford University has operated for more than 40 years for the U.S. Department...

Theoretical physicist and arms control expert Sidney Drell has been selected to receive the 11th annual Heinz Award for Public Policy.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country's oldest honorary learned societies, announced on April 27 the election of the 2005 class of Fellows.

Using ultra-fast bursts of x-ray light, scientists at the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) have observed the dizzyingly fast first steps of a solid melting into a liquid.

After a nearly five-month shutdown, the B Factory experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is back on-line and ready to gather data.

What is it like to be a physicist in 2005, 100 years after Einstein pushed physics to a new frontier?

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...