Ultimate Goal: A Super-efficient Way to Conduct Electricity at Room Temperature

Four-day Event Includes Presentations by Nobel Prize Winners, Other Science Luminaries

Science Wonderland at AT&T Park Features Two SLAC Exhibits

Cosmic inflation refers to a period of rapid, accelerated expansion that scientists think took place about 14 billion years ago.

Stanford University Web Archive Features Oldest North American Web Content

Just three days after the San Francisco Giants won the 2014 World Series, SLAC helped transform their home stadium, AT&T Park, into a science...

Scientists have demonstrated that a promising technique for accelerating electrons on waves of hot plasma is efficient enough to power a new generation of...

Scientists at Genentech and SLAC have watched a key human protein change from a form that protects cells to one that kills them, providing...

The Planck mission released a first glimpse of data that, later this year, will test BICEP2’s discovery of gravitational waves.

Companies are using an electron-beam 3-D printing process to manufacture medical implants.

In a recent experiment at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, scientists "tickled" atoms to explore the flow of heat and energy across materials at...

Researchers have discovered that an Ebola virus protein can transform into three distinct structures with different functions. This rather uncommon property provides new clues...