MENLO PARK -- Thousands of commuters on I-280 drive over literally the coolest spot in the universe every day where the upgraded Stanford Linear Accelerator requires those freezing temperatures to ...

The printing press, one of the most important inventions in human history, was developed around the same time by two very different cultures, separated by vast distances. Was it serendipity? Or a ...

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Experimental physicist Kathryn Ann “Kam” Moler Ph.D. ’95 will become vice president of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) starting Nov. 1. In her role, Moler hopes to lead SLAC in ...

Age 40 is a "shadow line" in life that must be crossed "in style -- or else," warned the writer Gore Vidal. He was speaking of human beings, not of scientific laboratories. But his point may apply to ...

The management contract to run the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Menlo Park, where many Nobel Prize-winning discoveries in physics have been made since the early 1960s, will be open to ...

The linear accelerator at Stanford University’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California was shut down Thursday and two research labs idled after a fire damaged electrical equipment that ...

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, ...

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 ...

Wolfgang “Pief” Panofsky, the nuclear physicist and brilliant administrator who was the driving force for the creation of Stanford University’s 2-mile-long linear electron accelerator, made crucial ...