About 50 new aerial photos of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have been added to the lab’s Flickr photostream.

Three SLAC scientists will receive Early Career Research Program grants from the U.S. Department of Energy for research to boost the peak power of...

Researchers from two SLAC-Stanford joint institutes, the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) and the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis...

Astronomers are actively hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars, thanks to data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey...

Five years ago, a pair of researchers used a clever update on a technique called in vitro evolution – evolution in a test tube...

More than 100 graduate and professional students attending an annual energy conference that takes place at Stanford and SLAC toured the lab on Tuesday.

Physicists operating an experiment located half a mile underground in Minnesota reported this weekend that they have found possible hints of dark-matter particles.

When the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) opened its giant eye last week and began taking pictures of the ancient light from far-off galaxies, more...

Stefan Mannsfeld, staff scientist at SLAC, has been announced as the winner of the 2011 William E. and Diane M. Spicer Young Investigator Award.

In 2009, when biophysicist Ilme Schlichting and her colleagues applied to use the X-ray laser at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source, they added a...

A new x-ray microscopy technique that allows scientists to make images 60 times faster than before has been developed by an Australian research team...

An international team of researchers has used SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) to discover never-before-seen behavior by electrons in complex materials with extraordinary...