Energy Secretary Bill Richardson today joined leading scientists from around the world at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) to dedicate a state-of-the-art research...

Burton Richter, Nobel Prize laureate and a pioneer of the colliders that now dominate high-energy physics, announced today that he will step down Aug...

It's finally happened. After extensions and delays, hand wringing and anxiety, the contract between Stanford University and the Department of Energy was signed on...

Jonathan Dorfan, associate director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and head of its B-Factory project, has been named SLAC's third director, President Gerhard...

A collaboration of astrophysicists from the Department of Defense's Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), and particle physicists from the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator...

Exploring fundamental composition of the universe

Eva Silverstein, a theoretical physicist whose studies have provided interesting new ideas about the nature of the universe, is one of this year's MacArthur...

Multimillion Dollar Investment to Increase Understanding of Disease and Help Develop New Pharmaceuticals

SLAC researcher Sadasivan Shankar talks about a new environmental effort starting at the lab – building a roadmap that will help researchers improve the...

A molecule with hooks that can grip and disable the virus’s pesky protease shows potential for fighting infection.

The ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed a process 4,000 times rarer than the production of Higgs bosons.

A new study probing the structure and evolution of galaxy clusters shows good agreement with the predictions of standard cosmological models.