Using ultra-fast bursts of x-ray light, scientists at the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) have observed the dizzyingly fast first steps...

What is it like to be a physicist in 2005, 100 years after Einstein pushed physics to a new frontier?

When new faculty arrive at the university—step off the bus, hoist their duffle bags over their shoulders and stare in wonder at the palm...

Plans by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) to build a revolutionary new synchrotron X-ray source received a major boost this year thanks to...

Researchers at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) and the German laboratory Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung (BESSY) have crafted a technique to take X-ray...

The director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center remains "an enthusiastic champion" of the proposed International Linear Collider, despite a recent decision by a...

A string of recent discoveries in astronomy has left scientists with an unsettling realization: The stuff we know and understand makes up less than...

Today, physicists conducting the BaBar experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), a Department of Energy laboratory operated by Stanford University, announced exciting...

If the laws of physics were precisely the same for matter and antimatter, you wouldn't be reading this. All matter, as we know it...

The speed of magnetic recording – a crucial factor in a computer's power and multimedia capabilities – depends on how fast one can switch...

The physicists of antiquity called it one of nature's fundamental elements; third-graders know its chemical formula; and all known forms of life need it...

"The light shines brilliantly these days at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL). The start up of SSRL's new synchrotron light facility, SPEAR3, guarantees...