A small team of researchers has used the brilliant X-rays of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory to pin down the crystalline structure of an...

In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Department of Energy recently launched a new feature, Women @ Energy, which showcases DOE employees who work...

It's one thing to design and build a brand-new piece of technology, to test it and tune it until it works just right.

Menlo Park, Calif. — If we could make plant food from nitrogen the way nature does, we’d have a much greener method for manufacturing...

Researchers at SLAC and Stanford have created a new device, smaller than a grain of rice, that could streamline optical data communications.

It sounds like something out of a cheesy science fiction movie, but thanks to new research led by Yi Cui, a professor of photon...

Jens Nørskov, director of SLAC's SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, has received the G.A. Hagemann Gold Medal for engineering scientific research from...

Firing Up LCLS for Fifth Run - With All Six Instruments

Any nanometer-sized sample exposed to the intense X-ray pulses of SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source is quickly ionized – stripped of electrons – and...

A tiny device invented at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will make it much easier for scientists to determine the structures of important, delicate proteins...

The X-Ray Pump Probe instrument, uses an optical laser to "pump," or excite a sample with photons of light, thereby triggering some sort of...

When he’s not actually doing experiments,  SLAC  physicist and Nobel laureate Martin Perl loves to talk about important trends in physics.