Two years after teams at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park celebrated completion ...

A particle accelerator was used to create lightning in a bottle by charging a spinning acrylic tube with high-energy ...

The Palimpsest, a writing of Archimedes once thought lost to history, has been revealed through the advanced use of a particle accelerator.

You’ve probably seen Lichtenberg figures before, those lightning-like traces left by high-voltage discharge. The safe way to create them is using an electron beam to embed charge inside an ...

The acceleration principle is an economic concept that attributes fluctuations in capital investment to changes in consumer demand.

David Kranes, a prolific Utah playwright - called by one theater director "the best American playwright you haven’t read yet" ...

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

Researchers have found that electrochemical tuning of Ni-rich cathodes can suppress structural collapse and extend Li-ion ...

Lithium-ion batteries (LiBs) remain the most widely used rechargeable batteries worldwide, due to their light weight, high ...

Norbert Holtkamp, a veteran of international research, takes over leadership of the particle physics laboratory in suburban ...

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

Water is all around us, yet its surface layer—home to chemical reactions that shape life on Earth—is surprisingly hard to study. Experiments at SLAC's X-ray laser are bringing it into focus.