Crews cooled a tunnel housing a particle accelerator to negative 456 degrees Fahrenheit — a temperature cooler than much of space — on April 15. Part of an upgrade project to Linac Coherent Light ...

Scientists are using X-ray imaging to recover erased astronomical text, hoping to find fragments from Hipparchus’s star catalogue. Courtesy Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator ...

Alexander Chao, a professor emeritus of particle physics and astrophysics at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has been recognized with the 2018 ...

Since the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory powered up its "linac" half a century ago, the 2-mile-long particle accelerator has driven a large number of successful research ...

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 ...

The central hub for powerful electron beams at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is getting a makeover to prepare for the installation of LCLS-II – a major upgrade to the ...

To unlock materials of the future, including better photocatalysts or light-switchable superconductors, researchers need to ...

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 ...

When the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford first opened its doors in 1966, it had already earned the distinction of housing the world's longest linear accelerator: A 3.2 kilometer ...

Alex Knapp is a Forbes senior editor covering healthcare and science. Particle accelerators do exactly what they say on the tin - they move different kinds of subatomic particles very, very quickly.