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X-ray research on 80-million-year-old fossilized burrows, likely the work of tiny marine worms, is helping scientists understand how living organisms affected the chemistry of the sea floor.

It’s in the air we breathe, but it’s not so easy to get ahold of 10 metric tons of xenon in its liquid form for the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment.

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.