LCLS-II will produce up to one million X-ray pulses per second and will be 10,000 times brighter than its predecessor. Reading time 3 minutes Engineers who have toiled on the world’s most powerful ...

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 ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...

After 50 years of operation, one-third of the lab's historic linac is extracted to build powerful new X-ray laser DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory For the first time in more than 50 years, a ...

Tens of thousands of accelerators exist around the world, producing powerful particle beams for the benefit of medical diagnostics, cancer therapy, industrial manufacturing, material analysis, ...

'The Worlds Within' and 'Fabrication of the Accelerator Structure,' now available digitally in high fidelity, tell the story of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's inception and construction DOE/SLAC ...

A new facility opens for experiments in SLAC’s historic End Station A, where the first evidence for quarks was discovered. Electrons are once again streaming into SLAC’s End Station A, setting the ...

Did you know one of the longest buildings on the planet is in Menlo Park? And drivers speeding along Interstate 280, near Sand Hill Road, pass mere meters above it? Bay Curious listener Eric Nelson of ...