Scientists have found the strongest evidence yet that a puzzling gap in the electronic structures of some high-temperature superconductors could indicate a new phase...

The X-Ray Pump Probe instrument, uses an optical laser to "pump," or excite a sample with photons of light, thereby triggering some sort of...

Last Saturday marked the 40th anniversary of an historic event: In 1973, a team of research pioneers extracted hard X-rays for the first time...

When he’s not actually doing experiments,  SLAC  physicist and Nobel laureate Martin Perl loves to talk about important trends in physics.

At first glance the beautifully bound 1797 Luigi Cherubini opera Médée looks like an impeccably preserved relic of opera's golden age. However, flip to...

The molecular power plants that carry out photosynthesis are at the root of a scientific quest to learn how they channel energy from sunlight...

SLAC and Stanford materials science professor William Chueh has won a $5,000 Young Scientist Award from the International Society of Solid-State Ionics (ISSI).

With more than 150,000 participants, the second annual USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C., may have been the largest celebration of Science...

Proteins are jittery things – continually moving, flopping around and waving their molecular arms.

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have clocked the fastest-possible electrical switching in magnetite, a naturally magnetic mineral...

Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford Physicist and SIMES Scientist, Honored by American Physical Society

A frustrating flaw in a set of custom crystals for an instrument at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory inspired a solution for an important scientific...