What are parallel universes, and why do we think they might exist?

An accomplished academic leader and longtime member of the Stanford community, Drell will become the university’s chief academic officer and chief budgetary officer. She...

Physicists and scientific computing experts prepare for an onslaught of petabytes.

Four physicists discuss Higgs boson research since the discovery.

The late artist June Schwarcz found inspiration in some unusual wrapping paper her husband brought home from the lab.

A team including SIMES principal investigator Shoucheng Zhang says it has found the first firm evidence of such a Majorana fermion.

Prototype tests of the future SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment are in full swing.

At a recent meeting, scientists shared ideas for searching for dark matter on the (relative) cheap.

The minuscule and the immense can reveal quite a bit about each other.

Instead of searching for dark matter particles, a new device will search for dark matter waves.

System tests at SLAC continue with 32 light sensors - up from a single one - in a small-scale version of the future experiment...

Lithium ion batteries may remain tops for sheer performance, but when cost-per-storage is factored in, a design based on sodium ions offers promise; research...