Three national laboratories in the Bay Area will participate in the Genesis Mission, a federal program aimed at accelerating ...

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 ...

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, ...

Aside from shining a billion times brighter than prior technology, SLAC National Laboratory’s newly upgraded Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS-II) heralds trailblazing research capabilities that could ...

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 ...

MENLO PARK, Calif. (KGO) -- Bay Area scientists have spent two decades developing the world's largest digital camera ever, and the work at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is now complete. The ...

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 ...

Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest ...

THREE NATIONAL LABORATORIES in the Bay Area will participate in the Genesis Mission, a federal program aimed at accelerating ...