In this lecture, SLAC’s Ryan Coffee explains how researchers are beginning to use pattern recognition and machine learning to study chemical reactions at the...

Abel, associate physics professor at Stanford and at SLAC and acting director of KIPAC, was recognized for the advances he’s made using supercomputers to...

A new experiment  is on the hunt for dark photons, hypothetical messengers of an invisible universe.

Orr's position encompasses both science and energy, including the Office of Science. SLAC is one of the national laboratories under the position's purview.

After more than six years of grinding and polishing, the first-ever dual-surface mirror for a major telescope is complete.

A superconducting magnet begins its journey from SLAC laboratory in California to Brookhaven Lab in New York.

Stanford and SLAC engineers observed electrons at work during catalytic reactions. Their findings challenge long-held theories about some catalysts, opening the door to new...

The Cosmic Microwave Background, leftover light from the big bang, carries a wealth of information about the universe—for those who can read it.

Scientists say collisions between dark matter particles might be the cause of a curious excess of gamma-ray light coming from the center of our...

From accelerators unexpectedly beneath your feet to a ferret that once cleaned accelerator components, symmetry shares some lesser-known facts about particle accelerators.

An analysis using LHC data verifies the existence of an exotic four-quark hadron.

During a day of talks at Stanford University, theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind explained “Why I Teach Physics to Old Codgers, and How It Got...