New research reveals how a molecule absorbs light and gains a proton while its watery environment reorganizes in response. 

The deep-underground experiment could produce early-scientific results in the search for one of nature’s most elusive substances even, before reaching optimal sensitivity when the...

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...

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

When it comes to making molecular movies, producing the world’s fastest X-ray pulses is only half the battle. A new technique reveals details about...

With SLAC’s X-ray laser, a research team captured ultrafast changes in fluorescent proteins between “dark” and “light” states. The insights allowed the scientists to...