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, ...

These Questions originally appeared on Quora - the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answers by Peter Graham, Stanford Physics Professor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Santa Clara University instructor Guy Letteer can’t easily distinguish between the students plugging cables into voltmeters in his crowded physics labs this summer. But some days the differences are ...

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, ...

That's what happened to Stanford physics professor Andre Linde on Monday when assistant professor Chao-Kin Kuo knocked on his door unexpectedly with a camera crew and a big reveal. Kuo arrived with a ...