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Stanford University announced today that Persis S. Drell, director at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has decided to return to her position as a faculty member.

Accelerator technology has made huge leaps forward, prompting important developments well beyond high energy physics in areas as diverse as energy and the environment, medicine, industry, national security and discovery science.

from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Menlo Park, Calif.—Glass, by definition, is amorphous; its atoms lack order and are arranged every which way.

Diamonds can add more than sparkle and style to X-ray experiments at the Linac Coherent Light Source.

In their search for fundamental truths, particle physicists have  a lot in common with explorers everywhere. 

The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to theorists Peter Higgs and Francois Englert to recognize their work developing the theory of what is now known as the Higgs field. U.S. scientists played a significant role in advancing their...

Levitt shares the prize with Martin Karplus of Université de Strasbourg, France, and Harvard University, and Arieh Warshe of the University of Sout

SLAC and Stanford scientists have set a world record for energy storage, using a clever “yolk-shell” design to store five times more energy in the sulfur cathode of a rechargeable lithium-ion battery than is possible with today’s commercial technology. The...

Students from US universities work on LHC experiments through a new research abroad program.

Science is no longer the wallflower who doesn’t get asked to the dance, writes physicist Glen Crawford in an essay about science outreach past and present.