Researchers at a SLAC/Stanford institute have made the first direct images of electrical currents flowing along the edges of a topological insulator – a...

As they say in the movie business, here's the pitch: tantalizing hints of an interaction that could demonstrate the existence of a new subatomic...

Each year, the editors of Physics World select what they consider the top 10 breakthroughs in the world of physics.

Stanford University announced today that Persis S. Drell, director at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has decided to return to her position as a faculty...

Accelerator technology has made huge leaps forward, prompting important developments well beyond high energy physics in areas as diverse as energy and the environment...

from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

from CERN

Menlo Park, Calif.—Glass, by definition, is amorphous; its atoms lack order and are arranged every which way.

Diamonds can add more than sparkle and style to X-ray experiments at the Linac Coherent Light Source.

In their search for fundamental truths, particle physicists have  a lot in common with explorers everywhere. 

The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to theorists Peter Higgs and Francois Englert to recognize their work developing the theory of what...

Levitt shares the prize with Martin Karplus of Université de Strasbourg, France, and Harvard University, and Arieh Warshe of the University of Sout