On Nov. 11, 1974, two research teams rocked the particle physics world when they announced they had independently discovered a new subatomic particle – the J/psi. The particle’s existence called for a ...

A new scientific instrument at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory promises to capture some of nature's speediest processes. It uses a method known as ultrafast electron ...

Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), have designed innovative technology that can generate both ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An international team of researchers is pushing forward with plans for a radically smaller, cheaper particle accelerator by using ...

The Department of Energy has approved the start of construction for a 3.2-gigapixel digital camera the world’s largest at the heart of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). Assembled at the ...

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright visited the Department of Energy (DOE)’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory on Tuesday for the first leg of a series of national laboratory tours in the Bay ...

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) was originally called Stanford Linear Accelerator Center when it was established in 1962 on some land owned by Stanford University in California. SLAC is an ...

Come visit the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (usually called SLAC), on the edge of the Stanford University campus, to learn about the inner workings of its 2-mile-long accelerator, which is ...

Winter, center, presents her work on marble rollercoasters to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory staff in Menlo Park on July 19, 2024. Photo by Magali Gauthier. Incoming fifth and sixth grade ...