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...

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...