News: Physics

Jaquelin Dudley, Kristen Grauman, Arlen Johnson, Daniel Leahy, Xiaoqin “Elaine” Li and Tanya Paull receive major honor from AAAS.

A panel of physicists and astronomers grapple with possible cracks in our modern creation myth, the standard model of cosmology.

High in a Chilean desert, scientists at the Simons Observatory probe the cosmic microwave background for clues about the history of the early universe.

Elaine Li and Xiuling Li will co-direct the new Texas Quantum Institute.

Astrophysicists and astronomers at UT Austin have used these rare phenomena to help answer fundamental questions about our universe.

Ph.D. student Maile Marriott’s submission illustrates the complexities of the “space weather” generated by our sun.

The new program will help fill the demand for semiconductor scientists and engineers and give students a chance to lead in a booming industry.

Graduate students Jessica Valdes and Keenan Riordan were on a team that found humans may have dispersed during arid times along “blue highways.”

Jarrod Bianco and Maile Marriott, two graduate students working with physicist Anna Tenerani, talk heliophysics.

Mark Raizen is part of a new effort focused on translating discoveries from the physics lab to the clinic.