New X-ray methods have captured the highest resolution room-temperature images of photosystem II.

SLAC experiments demonstrate a new way to access valence electrons, which are important in forming chemical bonds and determine many of a material’s properties.

Paleontologist Phil Manning describes the “Imaging Life on Earth” project at TEDxCharleston.

Squeezing a platinum catalyst a fraction of a nanometer nearly doubles its catalytic activity, a finding that could lead to better fuel cells and...

After 30 years in industry, he is leading a new focus at the lab’s SSRL X-ray light source and looking for ways to build...

Can the same type of technology Facebook uses to recognize faces also recognize particles?

What have scientists learned in five years of studying cosmic rays with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment?

SLAC launched America’s first website on Dec. 12, 1991.

Holiday guests will gravitate toward these physics cookies.

Scientists at Stanford and SLAC use diamondoids – the smallest possible bits of diamond – to assemble atoms into the thinnest possible electrical wires.

Computer simulations by SLAC physicists show how light pulses can create channels that conduct electricity with no resistance in some atomically thin semiconductors.

Scientists furthered studies of the Higgs boson, neutrinos, dark matter, dark energy and cosmic inflation and continued the search for undiscovere