Read about how SLAC professor Siegfried Glenzer creates extreme conditions like those in the cores of planets and studies nuclear fusion.

Accelerator physicist Agostino Marinelli discusses how SLAC's X-ray laser makes femtosecond light.

Explore the fourth dimension, from processes that occur in billions of years down to tiny slivers of a second.

Physicist Phil Bucksbaum gives a brief introduction to Femtosecond Week at SLAC.

Take a digital tour of the undulators and near experimental hall at the Linac Coherent Light Source.

A new NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory image featuring hundreds of thousands of distant galaxies in and around the COSMOS field marks the Observatory’s...

The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment observed a particle interaction that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPs, a dark matter candidate – but researchers will...

Science wonderland at the San Francisco Giants ballpark draws a science-enthusiastic crowd of 35,000 visitors.

After losing its first match of the day to the defending champions, The Harker School’s team won 10 consecutive rounds to claim victory in...

A SLAC-Stanford team developed a new way to precisely measure just how much energy has dissipated into heat in an electrical system – and...

SLAC and Stanford scientists used ultrafast electrons and a laser to reveal an unexpectedly strong optical response to ionization, opening new possibilities for radiological...

SLAC will be hosting two  annual Regional Science Bowls for teams of Bay Area high school and middle school students in 2026.