Jonathan Rivnay, a Stanford graduate student in materials science who has conducted significant research at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource on the relationships between...

The latest report on SESAME, a synchrotron light source that will be the first big international science center in the Middle East, says it...

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

The search for dark matter runs deep with physicists Blas Cabrera and Bernard Sadoulet, who have chased this mystery far underground and will be...

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...

On June 11, 2008, what was then the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope rode a Delta II rocket into low-Earth orbit. After two months...

A big reason for publishing scientific results is to inform others who can then use your data and conclusions to make additional discoveries, technologies...

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...

Two SLAC-affiliated professors were recently elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Laser probes microscopic components of air pollution

John Hill watched with eager anticipation as controllers ramped up the power systems driving SLAC's X-ray laser in an attempt to achieve the record...