Menlo Park firefighters disbanded their search for a distressed paraglider after a reported crash turned out to be a "near ...

Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of California, Los ...

A new kind of plasma accelerator has cleared a hurdle that has dogged the field for decades, lifting electron energy and beam ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pioneering software called ACE3P was developed almost a quarter century ago to fine-tune the design of particle accelerators and their components. Now its latest incarnation is being adapted for ...

MENLO PARK, Calif. (KGO) -- An incredible one-week experience just wrapped up for more than 20 local kids. Each of them got to spend time at one of the most advanced laboratories in the world for a ...

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 ...