One way to make magnetic storage drives faster would be to use light to flip the polarity of tiny patches of material, called magnetic...

It was a little over two years ago that the Large Hadron Collider kicked off its search for the Higgs boson.

Theoretical physicist and SLAC Professor Emeritus Helen Quinn chaired a National Academy of Sciences committee that last week issued A Framework for K-12 Science...

SLAC’s Daniel Ratner will be honored with the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Beam Physics award at the American Physical Society meeting in New...

SLAC particle theorist Lance Dixon has been named co-winner of the 2014 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, awarded each year by the...

Accelerator physicists at SLAC have started commissioning the world’s most compact photoinjector – a device that spits out electrons when hit by light.

Do you think scientists have the answers to all the questions? As these researchers admit, there’s still so much to discover. Particle physics is...

Through the “Snowmass” process, US particle physicists thoroughly considered the field’s most compelling unanswered questions and ways to realistically answer them.

Stanford's first-ever entry in the Department of Energy-sponsored green building competition finished in fifth place, the top team among Calif

John Bozek, an instrument scientist at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source takes us behind the scenes at the Atomic, Molecular and Optical Science Instrument...

Particle astrophysicists are helping illuminate the dark side of the universe for a new show at the American Museum of Natural History in New...

Particle physics has revolutionized the way we look at the universe.