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

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 ...

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

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 ...

A pilot's call sparked a search over SLAC; the paraglider landed safely at Palo Alto Airport with no injuries.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...