A groundbreaking study shows defects spreading through diamond faster than the speed of sound 

Dr. Lev Okun will receive a special award created by the Open Society Institute (George Soros, Chairman) in recognition of his work in support...

A sophisticated new "particle smasher" at Stanford University built to explore the difference between matter and antimatter came to life this week with the...

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...