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...

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

SLAC researcher Sadasivan Shankar talks about a new environmental effort starting at the lab – building a roadmap that will help researchers improve the...

A molecule with hooks that can grip and disable the virus’s pesky protease shows potential for fighting infection.

The ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed a process 4,000 times rarer than the production of Higgs bosons.

A new study probing the structure and evolution of galaxy clusters shows good agreement with the predictions of standard cosmological models. 

The SLAC-Stanford team pulled hydrogen directly from ocean waters. Their work could help efforts to generate low-carbon fuel for electric grids, cars, boats and...

An astronomy festival will mark the milestone.

New SLAC-Stanford Battery Center bridges the gaps between discovering, manufacturing and deploying innovative energy storage solutions. 

The ATLAS experiment measured more than expected of a trio of particles in the aftermath of proton collisions. The results will refine physicists’ understanding...

The algorithm pairs machine-learning techniques with classical beam physics equations to avoid massive data crunching.

After decades of effort, scientists have finally seen the process by which nature creates the oxygen we breathe using SLAC’s X-ray laser.