Scientists have revealed never-before-seen details of how our brain sends rapid-fire messages between its cells using SLAC's X-ray laser.

Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey, using one of the world’s most powerful digital cameras, have discovered eight more faint celestial objects hovering near...

How can we figure out when the universe began?

A major international effort at SLAC is focused on improving our views of intact viruses, living bacteria and other tiny samples using the brightest...

Graham George and Ingrid Pickering, a husband and wife X-ray research team, are co-leading a new study in Bangladesh to test whether selenium supplements...

A SLAC-led research team working at the lab’s FACET facility has demonstrated a new way of accelerating positrons that could help develop smaller, more...

Exploding stars have an immense capacity to destroy—and create.

Theorists from the Institute for Advanced Study have proposed a way forward in the quest to test string theory.

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, scientists got a textbook-worthy result that may change the way matter is probed at X-ray free-electron lasers.

The CMS and ATLAS experiments combined forces to more precisely measure properties of the Higgs boson.

Researchers at SLAC have for the first time seen a spin current – an inherent magnetic property common to all electrons – as it...