Olena Fedchenko appointed to new Gisela and Wilfried Eckhardt endowed professorship for experimental physics – Funding provided by the estate of former physics student Gisela Eckhardt – City of ...

All around us are elements forged in stars, from the nickel and copper in coins to the gold and silver in jewelry. Scientists have a good understanding of how these elements form: In many cases, a ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — UC Santa Barbara physicists Sebastian Streichan, David Patterson and Andrea Young are among the 22 mid-career researchers to be named Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Stuart Parkin, an experimental physicist with the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., will speak on "The Spin on Electronics" at the 13th annual Moti Lal Rustgi Memorial ...

Assistant professor in the Krieger School's William H. Miller III Department of Physics and Astronomy, Speller focuses on experimental nuclear and particle astrophysics. She researches the nature of ...

Exactly 100 years ago, famed Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger (yes, the cat guy) postulated his eponymous equation that explains how particles in quantum physics behave. A key component of quantum ...

RICHLAND – The renowned experimental physicist and Nobel laureate whose brainchild resulted in the LIGO observatory at Hanford in Eastern Washington has died. Rainer Weiss, 92, died Aug. 25 in ...

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has named Boston College Professor of Physics Ilija Zeljkovic among its third annual cohort of Experimental Physics Investigators, a group they expect will yield ...

For experimental physicists, the latest measurement of the muon is the best of times. For theorists there's still work to do. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates.

Quantum physics is often described as the most successful scientific framework in history. In its 100 years of existence, it has explained everything from the periodic table of the elements to how ...

A Los Alamos collaboration has replicated an important but largely forgotten physics experiment: the first deuterium-tritium (DT) fusion observation. As described in the article published in Physical ...