A string of recent discoveries in astronomy has left scientists with an unsettling realization: The stuff we know and understand makes up less than...

Today, physicists conducting the BaBar experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), a Department of Energy laboratory operated by Stanford University, announced exciting...

If the laws of physics were precisely the same for matter and antimatter, you wouldn't be reading this. All matter, as we know it...

The speed of magnetic recording – a crucial factor in a computer's power and multimedia capabilities – depends on how fast one can switch...

The physicists of antiquity called it one of nature's fundamental elements; third-graders know its chemical formula; and all known forms of life need it...

"The light shines brilliantly these days at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL). The start up of SSRL's new synchrotron light facility, SPEAR3, guarantees...

Using entire galaxies as lenses to look at other galaxies, researchers have a newly precise way to measure the size and age of the...

Jets of particles streaming from black holes in far-away galaxies operate differently than previously thought, according to a study published today in Nature.

Zhi-Xun Shen, director of the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science, or SIMES, a joint institute of the Department of Energy's SLAC National...

The first experiments are now underway using the world's most powerful X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source, located at the Department of Energy's...

A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled by an international team co-led by Sarah Church of the...

Water is familiar to everyone—it shapes our bodies and our planet. But despite this abundance, the molecular structure of water has remained a mystery...