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A SLAC/Stanford study opens a new path to producing laser pulses that are just billionths of a billionth of a second long by inducing ‘high harmonic generation’ in a solid.

Quantum physics says everything is made of particles, but what does that actually mean?

Meet the world’s deepest underground physics facilities.

Finding ways to handle torrents of data from LSST and LCLS-II will also advance “exascale” computing.

Taken at SLAC, microscopic footage of exploding liquids will give researchers more control over experiments at X-ray lasers.

Astronomers around the world are looking for visible sources of gravitational waves.

The upgraded experiment aims to discover if neutrinos are their own antiparticles.

Scientists want to connect the fundamental forces of nature in one Grand Unified Theory.

New ‘GREEN-RF’ Technology Recycles Energy that Would Otherwise Go to Waste in Accelerating Particles for Science, Medicine, Industry

Using data from the world’s most powerful X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, an international team of scientists has made a crucial advance in analyzing ultrafast motions of molecules.

The Macromolecular Structure Knowledge Center can help researchers who lack equipment for testing hundreds of different crystallization conditions or expertise in working with challenging molecules.

Accelerator scientists are in demand at labs and beyond.