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Particle physics experiments are huge—they have to be, in order to accelerate particles with enough energy to…

If you’re a history buff, you might not know much particle physics. But the two fields share more in common than…

You might flee from words like “quarks,” “relativity,” and “joule,” but you shouldn’t have to, and neither should a…

The poor water droplets never stood a chance. Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Lab have aimed their…

SLAC’s National Accelerator Laboratory is already home to the world’s brightest X-ray laser—but it’s getting an…

Scientists at SLAC decided it was time to upgrade some of their kit, and the result is the laboratory’s most…

If you know anything about the Large Hadron Collider, you know that it is huge. Massive. 17 miles of tunnels under…

Stanford's Linear Accelerator Laboratory operates the longest particle accelerator of its kind—it's produced…

The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is one of those places that makes magic. Originally named the Stanford…

Just getting a particle up to near the speed of light isn't good enough for today's physics. To properly unravel the…

Conventional data transmission techniques rely on two-dimensional signals to carry the information down a pipeline,…

The 21st century has been a real disappointment so far. Our robot servants top out at mediocre vaccums, self-driving…

Thirty feet beneath the hills of Menlo Park, scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator have worked for the past…

You're looking at the heart of the most powerful X-Ray laser machine ever created by humans, billions of times…

This newly created X-ray laser is just unimaginably powerful. It's a billion times brighter than any previous X-ray…

So just how much can a digital camera the size of a Hyundai see? Hopefully, if you're the Stanford team building it,…