Understanding the origins of our solar system, the future of our planet or humanity requires complex calculations run on high-power computers.

After working with particle accelerators his entire professional career, Heather Rock Woods’ father placed himself in the path of a beam to fight cancer.

Differences between two types of black-hole-powered galaxies may reflect a change in how the galaxies extract energy from their central black holes.

If it exists, a type of decay called neutrinoless double-beta decay will show that neutrinos are their own antiparticles and can help scientists determine...

A sensor design first envisioned in 1995 by physicists and engineers at SLAC plays a starring role in a major ATLAS detector upgrade at...

SLAC scientists have found a new way to produce bright pulses of light from accelerated electrons that could shrink "light source" technology used around...

Even in their infancy, X-ray lasers such as SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source are notching a list of important discoveries, and a special issue...

Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have made the first structural observations of liquid water at temperatures down to minus...

A sense of adventure and intellectual rigor led PULSE chemistry professor Kelly Gaffney to a successful career in science.

Students estimate their way through pop culture problems to learn a life skill.

SLAC Research Reveals Rapid DNA Changes that Act as Molecular Sunscreen

A new result from the Large Hadron Collider strengthens the case that the Higgs interacts with both types of particles in the Standard Model.