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The former Stanford graduate student, who did extensive research at SLAC, is being honored as an exceptional role model for women in science.

A tiny change in the length of a chemical bond makes a big difference in the activity of a molecule important in health, drug development and chemical synthesis

Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald received the call from Sweden for their work on the Super-Kamiokande and SNO experiments.

SIMES research, which confounds two decades of assumptions on lithium-ion battery design, could lead to better batteries with more power and greater capacity.

A new breed of experiments seeks sources of cosmic rays and other astrophysics phenomena.

For physicists, seeing is not always believing.

Amateurs and professionals share the credit in the newest publications from the Space Warps project.

Is it possible that these fundamental building blocks of atoms have a finite lifetime?

The DOE has approved the project’s scientific scope, schedule and funding. SLAC researchers are among the 200 physicists and astronomers who make up the international DESI Collaboration.

Dark matter experiments are becoming so sensitive, even the ghostliest of particles will soon get in the way.

Using SLAC's X-ray laser, researchers have for the first time directly observed myoglobin move within quadrillionths of a second after a bond breaks and the protein releases a gas molecule.

The Higgs doesn’t quite fit in with the other particles of the Standard Model of particle physics.