Stanford Professors Piero Pianetta, a physicist, and Britt Hedman, a chemist, will become the new deputy directors of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) at the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).

The growing new field of ultrafast science—which scrutinizes very tiny things that move and change at super fast speeds—gains momentum Oct. 17 with the announcement of the first director for the new Stanford Ultrafast Science Center.

Henry VIII’s warship, the Mary Rose, wreaked havoc on the French navy for 34 years until she was wrecked in 1545. Salvaged from the sea in 1982, she now rests in the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth, England.

Stanford Professor Joachim Stöhr, an innovative x-ray scientist, will become the new director of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) on Oct. 1.

On Thursday June 30th at the international Lepton-Photon symposium in Uppsala, Sweden, the BaBar experiment at the Department of Energy’s Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) announced the discovery of a new massive particle with curious behavior.

The E158 experiment at the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) has made vital new observations that illuminate the nature of the weak force.

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.