The SLAC campus is located on 426 acres of Stanford University property, just three miles west of the university campus. The main entrance to the facility is on Sand Hill Road, just east of Interstate 280.

Taking pictures of tiny, flash-frozen things with electrons is revolutionizing biology and technology. SLAC and Stanford host one of the world’s leading facilities for...

The X-rays they produce reveal the secrets of everything from ancient texts to modern pharmaceuticals.

Molecular movie-making is both an art and a science; the results let us watch how nature works on the smallest scales.

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Physicist Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, known affectionately to most as "Pief," spent more than five decades at Stanford in enthusiastic pursuit of some of...

Forty years ago,Wolfgang Panofsky dreamed up the largest, most expensive piece of machinery ever used in experimental physics. Today we call it SLAC.

Jonathan Dorfan, who has served as the director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) for nearly eight years, has announced he will step...

Bernhard Mistlberger will receive the APS's 2023 Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics for his work on precision Standard Model calculations.

A research team including SLAC staff engineer Gustavo Cezar shows that charging electric vehicles in the daytime would spread the load on the electric...

Calcium regulates many critical processes within the body, including muscle contraction, the heartbeat, and the release of hormones.

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu on Monday dedicated the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world's most powerful X-ray laser, at the Department of...