Three new studies show the promise and challenge of using plasma wakefield acceleration to build a future electron-positron collider.

To keep up with an impending astronomical increase in data about our universe, astrophysicists turn to machine learning.

Using a 5,000-mile network loop operated by ESnet, researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) recently transferred 1 petabyte in...

Our best model of particle physics explains only about 5 percent of the universe.

Predicted by Einstein and discovered in 1979, gravitational lensing helps astrophysicists understand the evolving shape of the universe.

During the last four years, LHC scientists have filled in gaps in our knowledge and tested the boundaries of the Standard Model.

The SIMES researcher was a rare theorist who concerned himself with the implications of his abstract ideas about new quantum states of matter on...

Scientists, including researchers at SLAC, have only just begun to study the remarkably detailed map they created of a portion of the sky.

Physicists often find thrifty, ingenious ways to reuse equipment and resources.

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will track billions of objects for 10 years, creating unprecedented opportunities for studies of cosmic mysteries.

SLAC Director Chi-Chang Kao spoke to the Stanford University Faculty Senate at its Feb. 21 meeting.

The LSST camera integration and testing team inserted a raft of nine imaging sensors into the body of the ComCam. This miniature version of...