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A new study by Stanford scientists overturns a widely held explanation for how organic photovoltaics turn sunlight into electricity.

A team including scientists at Berkeley Lab and SLAC have brought us a significant step closer to understanding how high-temperature superconductors work their magic.

As volunteers for a project called Einstein@Home, citizen scientists unleashed the unused cycles of their home computers on data from the Large Area Telescope, the SLAC-operated main instrument of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, and found four new pulsars.

How is it possible to look at the earliest moments of the universe?

A panel met at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to look for promising routes to the study of dark matter, dark energy and other phenomena.

The Stanford Positron Electron Accelerating Ring (SPEAR) at SLAC was completed in 1972 and has been used by physicists to discover new particles, most notably the J/psi in 1974 and the tau in 1976.

Using an entire galaxy as a lens to look at an object in the far distance, researchers are learning more about powerful jets emitted when matter f

The distant universe looks a little clearer, thanks to tens of thousands of citizen scientists who classified more than 6 million images over the past three days.

During SLAC's public lecture on Jan 28, Shoucheng Zhang will explain how the recent discovery of a new state of matter – the topological insulator – may lead to a new paradigm of information processing. (Registration required.)

Scientists studying five years of data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found the first gamma-ray variable pulsar.

While this particular material is very unstable, the research shows it may be possible to find a material with the properties graphene has to offer in a thicker, sturdier form that’s easier to craft into electronic devices

Teachers are using Google+ to bring their classes behind the scenes at national laboratories and to teach students about careers in STEM.