A party’s on at Synergy, but the partygoers aren’t any ordinary attendees. In fact, most of them are physics majors. This “phrave,” or physics rave, was organized by the Stanford University Physics ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Douglas Stanford’s fascination with black holes had its origins in an unlikely place: a sailboat. Starting at age 10, Stanford spent five years sailing around the world with his parents and two ...

Alakh Pandey, aka Physics Wallah, took to Instagram to share a post on being invited to prestigious foreign universities as a speaker. In his post, he shared how he asked the Indian students studying ...

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 ...