A powerful X-Ray machine at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Menlo Park is giving a special look into some historic documents. With a combination of history, science, technology and liberal arts, ...

In October 2023, John Sarrao ’89 became the newest director of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the sixth in its history. Sarrao had previously worked for 30 years at Los Alamos National ...

A particle accelerator's $1 billion upgrade could lead to improvements in electronic gear. Also in SLAC's sights: better batteries and cancer treatments. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Water is all around us, yet its surface layer—home to chemical reactions that shape life on Earth—is surprisingly hard to ...

Norbert Holtkamp has been appointed as the new director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, effective Jan. 12, 2026.

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 ...

U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm visited the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory for the official launch of LCLS-II last Thursday. LCLS-II is a world-class laser with potential applications ...

Warm dense matter is a state of matter that forms at extreme temperatures and pressures, like those found at the center of ...

After nearly a decade in development, the second iteration of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the DoE's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is nearly ready to start throwing photons ...

Did you know one of the longest buildings on the planet is in Menlo Park? And drivers speeding along Interstate 280, near Sand Hill Road, pass mere meters above it? Bay Curious listener Eric Nelson of ...

What do you do with the longest building in the world once it's fulfilled the purpose you've built it for? In the case of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, you find other ways of getting ...