Stanford Professor Joachim Stöhr, an innovative x-ray scientist, will become the new director of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) on Oct. 1.

Henry VIII’s warship, the Mary Rose, wreaked havoc on the French navy for 34 years until she was wrecked in 1545. Salvaged from...

On Thursday June 30th at the international Lepton-Photon symposium in Uppsala, Sweden, the BaBar experiment at the Department of Energy’s Stanford Linear Accelerator Center...

The E158 experiment at the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) has made vital new observations that illuminate the nature of the...

On May 24, Jonathan Dorfan, director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), announced a complete reorganization of the structure and senior management of...

For five days in May, the ancient collided with the ultra-modern at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), bringing brilliant, long-hidden ideas to light...

Theoretical physicist and arms control expert Sidney Drell has been selected to receive the 11th annual Heinz Award for Public Policy.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country's oldest honorary learned societies, announced on April 27 the election of the 2005...

After a nearly five-month shutdown, the B Factory experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is back on-line and ready to gather data.

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...