Using powerful X-rays, researchers at SLAC are trying to recover erased traces of a 2,000-year-old star catalog that could ...

As the Dark Energy Survey (DES) releases its final results, we caught up with two physicists who've been involved in the project from its early days. In this Q&A, Josh Frieman, DES co-founder and ...

SLAC researchers used X-ray beams and the particle accelerator to recover the work of an ancient astronomer, who made the earliest known attempt to log the stars.

A Bay Area lab is using modern technology to recover history that had literally been erased. The x-ray beam that comes out of ...

A false alarm sent Menlo Park firefighters searching for a crashed paraglider on Saturday, Jan. 17, according to a pilot who ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

Water doesn’t behave the same way in a glass as it does as ice in your freezer. When water is heated to several thousand ...

An aerial view of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory campus. Embarcadero Media file photo. Authorities made an arrest after a break-in at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory campus on the ...

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 ...