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Past Event

A visit to SLAC in October 2018 inspired Nitin Sawhney to create an original audio composition for two short visualization movies on the origins...

Past Event

Presented by Margaux Lopez.

Past Event

Join us for the inaugural SLAC on Tap event at The Patio in Palo Alto. SLAC scientist Alan Fry will chat about lasers not...

Deputy Director Emeritus

Gregory Loew spent his entire 50-year career at SLAC, starting in 1958 when it was still called “Project M.” He developed the design of...

News Brief

Bernhard Mistlberger will receive the APS's 2023 Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics for his work on precision Standard Model calculations.

As deputy director for projects and infrastructure, Vitaly oversees the Project Management Office and is responsible for scientific and infrastructure project management and campus...

Feature

A research team including SLAC staff engineer Gustavo Cezar shows that charging electric vehicles in the daytime would spread the load on the electric...

Photograph of a man plugging an electric cord into a gray car on a driveway.

News Release

Calcium regulates many critical processes within the body, including muscle contraction, the heartbeat, and the release of hormones.

High-resolution images of the ryanodine receptor, a protein associated with calcium

News Release

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu on Monday dedicated the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world's most powerful X-ray laser, at the Department of...

News Release

Dr. Jonathan Dorfan has been named president-elect of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University.

News Release

The first published scientific results from the world's most powerful hard X-ray laser, located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, show...

Music for the Cosmos: An Exploration of Art & Physics

What on earth do Maseratis, ice hockey and corgi puppies have to do with telescopes?

Lasers not attached to sharks, ultrafast science and the quantum mechanics of your sunglasses

Gregory A. Loew

SLAC physicist wins American Physical Society early career award

Rich Poliak

Vitaly Yakimenko

Charging cars at home at night is not the way to go, Stanford study finds

X-Rays Offer First Detailed Look at Hotspots for Calcium-related Disease

Energy Secretary Dedicates World's Most Powerful X-ray Laser

Jonathan Dorfan, SLAC Professor and Director Emeritus, to Lead New Graduate University in Japan

First Results from the LCLS: Unpeeling Atoms and Molecules from the Inside Out