It was a little over two years ago that the Large Hadron Collider kicked off its search for the Higgs boson.

Theoretical physicist and SLAC Professor Emeritus Helen Quinn chaired a National Academy of Sciences committee that last week issued A Framework for K-12 Science...

On June 11, 2008, what was then the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope rode a Delta II rocket into low-Earth orbit. After two months...

A big reason for publishing scientific results is to inform others who can then use your data and conclusions to make additional discoveries, technologies...

SLAC’s Daniel Ratner will be honored with the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Beam Physics award at the American Physical Society meeting in New...

Two SLAC-affiliated professors were recently elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Laser probes microscopic components of air pollution

John Hill watched with eager anticipation as controllers ramped up the power systems driving SLAC's X-ray laser in an attempt to achieve the record...

A material that could enable faster memory chips and more efficient batteries can switch between high and low ionic conductivity states much faster than...

Along with lectures, poster sessions, discussions, and the traditional SLAC vs. SSI soccer game, the 160 attendees from five continents who converged on SLAC...

Shoucheng Zhang, a condensed matter theorist with the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, a joint SLAC-Stanford institute, has been named one of...

Every three hours, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope scans the entire sky and deepens its portrait of the high-energy universe.