Most people like to keep their hobbies and work separate. But not Steve Williams. The Director's Liaison for the construction of SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), Williams spends his ...

One of the coldest places in the universe is in Menlo Park. Thirty feet below the Peninsula’s graceful foothills, a new superconducting particle accelerator at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has ...

This is an aerial view of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world's first hard X-ray free-electron laser. Using SLAC's linear particle accelerator to create powerful X-rays, LCLS pushes ...

Scientists in Silicon Valley and Germany have kicked off a five-year project to create a particle accelerator that’s the size of a shoebox — a project that, if successful, could revolutionize ...