from the National Science Foundation

“Smaller, faster, cheaper" is Silicon Valley's mantra for progress. But as critical components shrink to near atomic dimensions, it’s becoming much more difficult for...

From their seats in the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, visitors swoop through a redwood forest, into a...

Stanford physicist Matt Bellis deals in the infinitesimal. As a member of the BaBar collaboration based at SLAC, he studies what happens when an...

from NASA

Menlo Park, Calif. — Researchers working at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have used the world’s most powerful X-ray...

Fifteen years ago, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) scientist Apurva Mehta volunteered to help a friend build beamline parts at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation...

A record-setting blast of gamma rays from a dying star in a distant galaxy has wowed astronomers around the world.

Menlo Park, Calif.--Scientists report today that they have taken a big step in determining what the first birds looked like more than 100 million...

Steven Kivelson, a member of SLAC’s Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, has been named a winner of the 2012 John Bardeen Prize...

from Stanford University

from Stanford Report