Researchers have made the first battery electrode that heals itself, opening a new and potentially commercially viable path for making the next generation of...

Marc Messerschmidt, a staff scientist at the Coherent X-ray Imaging (CXI) experimental station at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser, describes his daily...

In scientific circles, “mock” is not always a four-letter word. To test that they’re interpreting their massive amounts of data correctly, astrophysicists create even...

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...

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...

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

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

During SLAC's public lecture on Jan 28, Shoucheng Zhang will explain how the recent discovery of a new state of matter – the topological...