Press releases

Browse the full collection of SLAC press releases and stay up to date on the latest scientific advancements at the laboratory.

The City of Menlo Park has given the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) a 2000 Environmental Quality Award in recognition of SLAC's success in reducing air pollution.

Science and User Support Building to the left and Arrillaga Science Center building to the right from above the Main Quad at SLAC's campus.

Scientists at DOEs Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) were in the last three days of the scheduled operation of the B Factorys PEP II collider with fingers crossed.

 SLAC B-Factory

President Clinton today named Sidney Drell as a winner of the Enrico Fermi Award, given for a lifetime of achievement in the field of nuclear energy. Dr. Drell will receive the award for his contributions to arms control and national...

Dr Sidney Drell Fermi Award

The award acknowledged the on-time, on-budget completion of the $293 million B Factory Project.

View down the tunnel of the Asymmetric B Factory.

Using high-intensity lasers, scientists hope to simulate a black hole event horizon in a laboratory, something that has never been done before.

Unruh radiation diagram

Today NASA announced an award to Stanford University for development of a space-based gamma-ray telescope named GLAST.

Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope

Multimillion Dollar Investment to Increase Understanding of Disease and Help Develop New Pharmaceuticals

synchronized molecules

Eva Silverstein, a theoretical physicist whose studies have provided interesting new ideas about the nature of the universe, is one of this year's MacArthur Fellows.

Eva Silverstein

Exploring fundamental composition of the universe

View down the tunnel of the Asymmetric B Factory.

A collaboration of astrophysicists from the Department of Defense's Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), and particle physicists from the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford University, have built an experiment to study black holes and neutron stars that...