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Andrei Linde freely admits that when he began developing theories of cosmic inflation in the early 1980s, the concept seemed like pure science fiction. But, as experimental data has verified his work, ...

Stanford's famed high-energy physics laboratory is in a tussle with the U.S. Department of Energy over naming rights to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, better known as SLAC. The Energy ...

Physicist Fred Kavli and the Kavli Foundation have pledged $7.5 million to establish an institute that will focus on recent developments in astrophysics, high-energy physics and cosmology. The Kavli ...

Engineers at Stanford University say a device they've built could lead to eventual development of much faster and more efficient computers that use light to transmit ...

The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, one of the nation’s premier physics research laboratories, is planning to stop work on two key projects and lay off more than 125 people because of a surprise ...

Stanford team builds room-temperature quantum device that eliminates massive energy costs of current quantum systems.

The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center has to go on an unexpected crash diet this year, thanks to budgetary blues brought on by the Iraq war and Congress’s insatiable appetite for pork. The ...

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John D. Fox, 60, a senior scientist at Stanford’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory from Menlo Park, Calif., on his Alfa Romeo Spider, as told to A.J. Baime. I teach applied physics at Stanford, ...

A Stanford physics PhD graduate has been selected to work as a grass-roots civil servant in rural China, an unusual career step that has attracted widespread attention. On Sunday evening, the civil ...