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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

Exploring fundamental composition of the universe

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...

It's finally happened. After extensions and delays, hand wringing and anxiety, the contract between Stanford University and the Department of Energy was signed on December 18, 1998 in a ceremony in Burton Richter's office at SLAC.