| 2024-02-04 |  | Are there bright galaxies in the early universe? | Read More |
| 2024-02-04 |  | Prof Malkan and Prof Naoz have been elected fellows of the American Astronomical society | Read More |
| 2024-01-15 |  | HRL Laboratories and Professor Jason Petta Awarded Grant to Advance Quantum Computing | Read More |
| 2024-01-15 |  | Dakotah Tyler, Professor Erik Petigura report comet-like tail trails hot Jupiter exoplanet WASP-69b | Read More |
| 2024-01-03 |  | Governor Newsom, Professor Hudson, and UC/UCLA announce plans for Innovation Hub | Read More |
| 2023-12-19 |  | Prof. John Miao led a team that determined, for the first time, the 3D atomic structure and chemical order of medium- and high-entropy alloys. The paper was published in Nature. | Read More |
| 2023-10-23 |  | PhD alum Steven Durr, Prof. Shenshen Wang and collaborators distilled physical principles from powerful machine learning algorithms. | Read More |
| 2023-10-23 |  | Congratulations to Professor David Saltzberg, the 2023 APS Division of Particles and Fields Instrumentation Prize | Read More |
| 2023-10-23 |  | Congratulations to Professor Alvine Kamaha, named as 2024 recipient of the APS Edward A. Bouchet Award, which recognizes... a distinguished minority physicist who has made significant contributions to physics research and the advancement of underrepresented minority scientists | Read More |
| 2023-08-27 |  | Congratulations to Professor David Leibrandt for his naming as 2023 Moore Experimental Investigator! | Read More |
| 2023-08-08 |  | Congratulations to Professors Derek Schaeffer and Mikhail Solon, named 2023 DOE Early Career Scientists | Read More |
| 2023-08-02 |  | UCLA Ph. D. John Sarrao named Director of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. | Read More |
| 2023-07-26 |  | Prof. Kogar from condensed matter and Prof. Musumeci from accelerator and beam physics team up to win the highly competitive EPIQS award from Moore foundation to develop a novel high resolution electron energy loss spectrometer. | Read More |
| 2023-07-23 |  | Professor David Saltzberg provided equations to "Oppenheimer" | Read More |
| 2023-06-06 |  | Experimental particle physics postdoc Elisabetta Manca won the Conversi Dissertation Prize from the INFN (Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics). | Read More |
| 2023-05-31 |  | Congratulations to Stephen Ebert, Tiema Qian, and Zhiwan Xu, who were each awarded a UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship! | Read More |
| 2023-05-29 |  | Undergraduate Amanda Younes has been interviewed by New Scientist about her project 'cooling by heating'. | Read More |
| 2023-05-11 |  | Following his election to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Professor Karoly Holczer delivered his acceptance lecture on April 26, 2023. | Read More |
| 2023-04-23 |  | GLASS-JWST team, led by Prof Tommaso Treu confirms most distant cosmic structure known | Read More |
| 2023-04-16 |  | Prof. Shenshen Wang and former grad student Hongda Jiang explained, in a pair of works, why antibody-producing cells physically learn and collectively remember the pathogens. | Read More |
| 2023-04-11 |  | The recent work on jet charge by Scientist Andrew Larakoski, former undergrad Jinghong Yang, and Prof. Zhongbo Kang has been selected as Editors’ Suggestion in Physical Review Letters. | Read More |
| 2023-04-02 |  | The department wishes to congratulate our undergraduate students awarded the 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship: Cody Fan, Rebekah Jin | Read More |
| 2023-04-02 | | The department wishes to congratulate our graduate students awarded the 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship: Zoe Haggard, Sahil Hegde, Asari Prado, Claire Elisabeth Williams, Anna Wolz | Read More |
| 2023-03-23 |  | Prof. John Miao led a team that observed topological magnetic monopoles in 3D. The paper has been published in Nature Nanotechnology | Read More |
| 2023-03-22 |  | Prof. John Miao led a team of scientists from CU Boulder, UCLA, Stanford and UC Berkeley that has received a $7.5 million MURI award. | Read More |
| 2023-03-15 |  | Prof. Shenshen Wang and PhD student Hongda Jiang developed a new theoretical framework that predicts how and why immune cells use force to direct their own evolution. | Read More |
| 2023-03-02 |  | Congratulations to Professor Ni Ni, on her election to Secretary/Treasurer for the APS Division of Materials Physics. | Read More |
| 2023-02-14 |  | Congratulations to Professor Zvi Bern, who has been awarded the 2023 Galileo Galilei medal! | Read More |
| 2023-02-01 |  | Congratulations to Prof. James Rosenzweig for being awarded the 2023 EPS Hannes Hannes Alfven Prize | Read More |
| 2023-02-01 |  | Prof Tommaso Treu Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science | Read More |
| 2023-01-25 |  | Congratulations to Professor David Saltzberg for his well-deserved winning of the 2022 APS Division of Particles and Fields Mentoring Award | Read More |
| 2023-01-25 |  | Visiting Professor has something to say about the future of physics. | Read More |
| 2023-01-19 |  | A recently discovered acoustic effect allows a hot gas to simulate the gravity-induced convection within a star or giant planet. | Read More |
| 2022-11-21 |  | Alex Kusenko was named Associate Editor of the Reviews of Modern Physics. | Read More |
| 2022-11-16 |  | Tommaso Treu leads team finding and studying the first galaxies to form after the big bang. | Read More |
| 2022-11-11 | | We congratulate Prof. James Rosenzweig for being awarded the prestigious Advanced Accelerator Concepts 2022 prize | Read More |
| 2022-11-08 |  | Dr Guido Roberts-Borsani awarded Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research. | Read More |
| 2022-11-08 |  | Tommaso Treu parts of a study published in Nature that captures very early stages of Supernova explosion using | Read More |
| 2022-10-31 |  | UCLA Graduate Dr. Agnieszka Sorensen won dissertation award from APS Division of Nuclear Physics | Read More |
| 2022-10-30 |  | Congratulations to Professor Wes Campbell, for his naming by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to the first cohort of Experimental Physics Investigators. | Read More |
| 2022-10-20 |  | Congratulations to Professors Campbell, Kraus, Naoz, and Ni for being named APS Fellows | Read More |
| 2022-10-18 | | The department congratulates Professor Wes Campbell, named 2022 APS Fellow in the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (DAMOP). | Read More |
| 2022-10-15 |  | Astrophysical Journal Letters Focus Issue on Early Results from the James Webb Space Telescope program GLASS, led by UCLA Professor Tommaso Treu. | Read More |
| 2022-10-10 | | The department congratulates Professor Ni Ni, named 2022 APS Fellow in the Division of Materials Physics (DMP). | Read More |
| 2022-10-10 |  | The department congratulates Professor Smadar Naoz, named 2022 APS Fellow in the Division of Astrophysics (DAP). | Read More |
| 2022-10-10 |  | The department congratulates Professor Per Kraus, named 2022 APS Fellow in the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF). | Read More |
| 2022-09-27 |  | Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Hosek for receiving the Brinson Prize Fellowship to work with the Galactic Center Group. | Read More |
| 2022-08-18 |  | Graduate student Briley Lewis writes on research into black holes and dark matter at UCLA | Read More |
| 2022-07-31 |  | UCLA-led team develops new approach for building quantum computers. The building blocks of chemistry offer the potential to dramatically scale up quantum processing. | Read More |
| 2022-07-30 |  | Congratulations to Professor Tuan Do, who has been recipient of the 2022-2023 UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows award. | Read More |
| 2022-07-11 |  | An international team lead by UCLA Professor Tommaso Treu has obtained some of the very first data with the new James Webb Space Telescope. | Read More |
| 2022-07-11 |  | Congratulations to Dr. Brenna Mockler for receiving the UC Chancellor postdoctoral fellowship. | Read More |
| 2022-07-07 |  | Prof. Alvine Kamaha's LUX-ZEPLIN experiment set the world's best limit on dark matter and continues to run. | Read More |
| 2022-06-21 |  | Congratulations to Prof. Shenshen Wang on being awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award. | Read More |
| 2022-05-31 |  | Congratulations to Prof. Roger Ulrich on being awarded the 2022 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics. | Read More |
| 2022-05-13 |  | Read Prof. Andrea Ghez's interesting interview with the LA Times | Read More |
| 2022-05-08 |  | Prof. Karoly Holczer has been elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. | Read More |
| 2022-05-02 |  | Prof. Alice Shapley will give the Faculty Research Lecture on "Traveling Back in Time to the Birth of Galaxies” (May 17) | Read More |
| 2022-05-02 |  | CERN has featured a UCLA physics result, a search for exotic new particles signaled by anomalous lifetimes | Read More |
| 2022-05-02 |  | Graduate Student Walter Lynn won a Dept. of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Fellowship | Read More |
| 2022-05-02 |  | Congratulations to Dr. Stephanie Krilov, who has won the Academic Senate's staff award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. | Read More |
| 2022-04-11 |  | Congratulations to Joshua Samani for being awarded the Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award for Senate Faculty. | Read More |
| 2022-04-05 |  | Congratulations to Sydney Feldman on winning an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. | Read More |
| 2022-03-24 |  | Prof. Smadar Naoz was elected to the Executive Committee of the Far West Section of the APS. | Read More |
| 2022-02-17 |  | Prof. Zhongbo Kang won a Dept. of Energy grant to boost diversity in nuclear physics. | Read More |
| 2022-02-17 |  | Profs. Malkan, Shapley, and Treu presented a webinar on UCLA Astronomy's science with the James Webb Space Telescope. | Read More |
| 2022-02-14 |  | Prof. Mikhail Solon named Sloan Research Fellow. UCLA leads all universities in number of 2022 awardees. | Read More |
| 2022-01-30 |  | Recent PhD graduate, Agnieszka (Wergieluk) Sorensen, had her nuclear physics results featured by DOE Office of Science. | Read More |
| 2022-01-12 |  | Astrophysics B.S. graduate, Maria Vincent, was granted the UAE Golden Visa award. | Read More |
| 2022-01-05 |  | Prof. Tommaso Treu was named AAS Fellow for his "innovative strong gravitational lensing observations and analysis methods." | Read More |
| 2021-12-12 |  | PhD alum Amy Lo was featured on "60 Minutes" for her role on the James Webb Space Telescope.
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| 2021-12-12 |  | PhD alum Lauren Pearce, Prof. Kusenko, and collaborators have linked gravitational waves, supersymmetry, and the Universe’s matter/antimatter asymmetry. | Read More |
| 2021-10-30 |  | CERN publicized PhD student Brent Stone's search for TeV-mass particles decaying into two Higgs bosons. | Read More |
| 2021-10-18 |  | Prof. Hudson and colleagues won a $3M NSF grant to support PhD students in quantum science and engineering. | Read More |
| 2021-10-12 |  | Profs. Alice Shapley and Tommaso Treu have been elected fellows of the American Physical Society (APS). | Read More |
| 2021-09-19 | | Prof. Smadar Naoz and collaborators won the Scialog award: Signatures of Life in the Universe, for averting false biosignatures. | Read More |
| 2021-09-19 |  | Recent Astro PhD, Jon Zink, and colleagues improved Kepler planet finding and are featured in Physics Today. | Read More |
| 2021-09-05 |  | Physics Today featured Prof. Stuart Brown's lab for ruling out claims of SRO's spin-triplet superconductivity. | Read More |
| 2021-08-29 |  | Prof. Rene Ong's General AntiParticle Spectrometer was approved by NASA for at least two Antarctic balloon campaigns. | Read More |
| 2021-07-20 |  | Prof. Ni Ni's group and collaborators discovered the Layer Hall effect in a 2D topological axion antiferromagnet. | Read More |
| 2021-06-29 |  | Prof. Thomas Dumitrescu has co-founded the Simons Collaboration on Global Categorical Symmetries, initially awarded $8M to unlock the power of symmetry. | Read More |
| 2021-06-22 |  | Congratulations to Dissertation Year Fellows: Kevin Chen, Bao Minh Hoang, Chaowei Hu, Dimitrios Kosmopoulos, John Terry, & Ji Zou. | Read More |
| 2021-06-07 |  | UCLA's Basic Plasma Science Facility accelerated electrons by Alfvén waves to solve the mystery of aurora borealis. | Read More |
| 2021-05-17 |  | Former grad student Chen-Hsuan Chu (PhD '14 with Chakravarty) won RIKEN's Emergent Matter Science award. | Read More |
| 2021-05-01 |  | Congratulations to PhD students Eric Cropp and Kyle Ferguson on winning DOE Office of Science graduate fellowships | Read More |
| 2021-04-22 | | Prof. John Miao received the 2021 Innovation in Materials Characterization Award from the Materials Research Society | Read More |
| 2021-04-21 |  | Congratulations to Spenser Talkington and Jonathan Lin on their NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. | Read More |
| 2021-04-14 |  | Congratulations to Dr. Shu "Suzy" Zhang on the UCLA Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral Research | Read More |
| 2021-04-05 |  | Congratulations to PhD students Anowar Shajib, Jon Zink, and former undergrad Erika Holmbeck on their Hubble Fellowships. | Read More |
| 2021-03-31 |  | Prof. John Miao led a team that solved a century-old scientific problem, the paper is published in this week's Nature. | Read More |
| 2021-03-31 |  | Profs. Malkan, Shapley, Treu, Turner, and Drs. Hosek and Roberts-Borsani are among the first awarded James Webb Space Telescope time. | Read More |
| 2021-03-30 |  | Congratulations to former UCLA Astro PhD student Dr. Emily Martin for her 51 Pegasi b Fellowship from the Heising-Simons Foundation | Read More |
| 2021-03-25 |  | Congratulations to Astro PhD student Sanaea Rose for winning the Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Fellowship. | Read More |
| 2021-03-05 |  | A $500,000 gift from Astrid and Howard Preston will allow renovation of UCLA's Remote Observing Facility | Read More |
| 2021-02-11 |  | Congratulations to Prof. Tommaso Treu on the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize and locating a Fast Radio Burst. | Read More |
| 2021-02-05 |  | Congratulations to Prof. Alex Kusenko for being selected as a Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics. | Read More |
| 2021-02-01 |  | Recent PhD student, Daniel Gilman, won honorable mention at the CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award ceremony. | Read More |
| 2021-01-17 |  | Prof. Matt Malkan has been appointed to the National Science Board to advise Congress and the White House. | Read More |
| 2020-12-14 |  | Graduate student Dimitrios Kosmopoulos has been awarded the Mavroyannis Scholarship in Theoretical Physics from the AHEPA. | Read More |
| 2020-12-10 |  | Congratulations to P&A alumna Kalliopi Petraki (PhD '09) on promotion to the highest professorial rank at the Sorbonne and a 2M euro theory grant." | Read More |
| 2020-12-04 |  | Prof. Troy Carter chaired the panel that authored the long-range strategic plan for fusion power and plasma science. | Read More |
| 2020-12-02 |  | Engineer Maxx Tepper's high-bandwidth custom electronics work for the LHC was featured by Samtec Blog. | Read More |
| 2020-11-24 |  | Prof. Graciela Gelmini was named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). | Read More |
| 2020-11-20 |  | The newest faculty of UCLA Astronomy and Astrophysics gave a public webinar about their research to nearly 1,000 people. | Read More |
| 2020-11-10 |  | Senior physics major Alina Kochocki won Honorable Mention for the 2020 University Space Research Association (USRA) Distinguished Undergraduate Award | Read More |
| 2020-10-12 |  | Check out the profile of Prof. Erik Petigura in the Daily Bruin. | Read More |
| 2020-10-05 |  | Andrea Ghez, the Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Professor of Astrophysics at UCLA, has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. | Read More |
| 2020-09-21 |  | Prof. Karoly Holczer and colleagues won a $1M NSF award to develop nitrogen vacancies in diamonds to advance quantum sensing. | Read More |
| 2020-09-08 |  | Profs. Walter Gekelman and Victoria Vesna will give a virtual plasma physics tour for Ars Electronica. | Read More |
| 2020-08-31 |  | We mourn the passing of Prof. Bob Finkelstein who joined our faculty in 1948 and remained active through this year. | Read More |
| 2020-08-19 |  | Prof. John Miao, PhD student Arjun Rana and colleagues report an innovative method to capture multiple images from attosecond pulses. | Read More |
| 2020-08-04 |  | Prof. Seth Putterman was awarded the DoD's Newton Award for Transformative Ideas during the COVID-19 Pandemic. | Read More |
| 2020-07-28 |  | Former UCLA Physics PhD Student, Anne White, has been appointed the Distinguished Professor of Engineering at MIT's School of Engineering. | Read More |
| 2020-07-28 | | Congratulations to Prof. Ni Ni and PhD student Chaowei Hu for the fabrication and discovery of the first intrinsic ferromagnetic topological insulator. | Read More |
| 2020-07-24 |  | Congratulations to Prof. Christoph Niemann for winning the 2020 APS John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics | Read More |
| 2020-07-21 |  | UCLA Physics will co-lead a new $25M NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute to overcome scientific challenges to quantum computing. | Read More |
| 2020-07-17 |  | Congratulations to Prof. Warren Mori for winning the 2020 APS Maxwell Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of plasma physics. | Read More |
| 2020-07-01 |  | Congratulations to Prof. Thomas Dumitrescu for being named a UCLA Hellman Fellow. | Read More |
| 2020-06-05 |  | Prof. Zhongbo Kang has won an NSF Career Award for theoretical work in quantum chromodynamics and nucleon structure. | Read More |
| 2020-06-05 |  | Grad Student Eddie Chang won "Best Poster" at the national APS meeting of the Group on Precision Measurement and Fundamental Constants | Read More |
| 2020-06-01 |  | Our department mourns the passing of Prof. Roberto Peccei and remembers his deep legacy and friendship. | Read More |
| 2020-05-15 |  | UCLA physicists have created the world's best fidelity qubit, the basic element of quantum information, making it easier to build a quantum computer. | Read More |
| 2020-05-01 |  | A surprising ferromagnetic order in superconductors predicted by Prof. Sudip Chakravarty, then-grad student Angela Kopp, and then-postdoc Amit Ghosal has been found experimentally. | Read More |
| 2020-05-01 |  | Congratulations to second-year grad student Jessica Pilgram, recent awardee of an NSF GRFP. | Read More |
| 2020-04-14 |  | Prof. Robijn Bruisnma published an article calculating the general phase plot for the capsid of viruses, which was selected as Editor's Suggestion for Physical Review Letters. | Read More |
| 2020-04-07 |  | A Nature video featuring the research from Prof. John Miao's group has reached 10 million views, becoming the most viewed video ever made by Nature in any discipline and indicating that the public is still interested in the basic research. | Read More |
| 2020-04-02 |  | Prof. Michalis Bachtis and UCLA colleagues have been awarded $2.2M as part of an NSF Major Research Equipment & Facilities Grant to upgrade the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. | Read More |
| 2020-04-02 |  | Dr. Hanguo Wang of UCLA helped start a project to build ventilators to fight COVID-19 disease using common off-the-shelf parts. | Read More |
| 2020-03-30 |  | Trent Thomas, a senior astrophysics major in the UCLA Physics & Astronomy department, just received an NSF Graduate Fellowship. | Read More |
| 2020-03-08 |  | Prof. John Miao led a team that produces most accurate 3D images of 2D materials. The work was published in Nature Materials today, accompanied with a News & Views article by Prof. Angus Kirkland of Oxford University. | Read More |
| 2020-02-24 |  | Professors Andrea Ghez and Ian McLean were named inaugural fellows of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) for their contributions toward the AAS mission of enhancing and sharing humanity's scientific understanding of the universe. | Read More |
| 2020-02-12 |  | Erik Petigura, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy, has been selected to receive the 2020 Sloan Research Fellowship, which selects early-career scientists and scholars who are rising stars of science. | Read More |
| 2020-01-20 |  | American Astronomical Society has announced that Smadar Naoz is the recipient of the Helen B. Warner Prize for 2020 for her many early career contributions to theoretical astrophysics. | Read More |
| 2020-01-09 |  | Hanguo Wang has been awarded the 2019 DPF Instrumentation Award for contributions to and development of the use of liquid xenon and argon detectors for direct detection searches for dark matter, including the two-phase technique. | Read More |
| 2020-01-09 |  | Professor Ni Ni and graduate student Chaowei Hu have found a new magnetic topological insulator, MnBi4Te7, a candidate for the Quantum Anomalous Hall effect. | Read More |
| 2020-01-07 |  | Tommaso Treu and other HoLiCOW colleagues have found a new Hubble measurement that strengthens a discrepancy in the universe's expansion rate. | Read More |
| 2020-01-07 |  | Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Tommaso Treu and fellow astronomers have found that dark matter forms much smaller clumps than previously known. | Read More |
| 2019-12-16 |  | Mark Morris and colleagues have revealed a new image of a candy-cane-shaped feature in the center of our galaxy. | Read More |
| 2019-12-11 |  | Astrophysicist Smadar Naoz has found that a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy may have a friend. | Read More |
| 2019-12-11 |  | David Jewitt leads a new analysis of data from Hubble Space Telescope that provides more details about the first observed interstellar comet. | Read More |
| 2019-11-19 |  | UCLA professors Edward L. Wright and Ni Ni have been acknowledged in the 2019 list of the world's most influential scientific researchers. | Read More |
| 2019-11-05 |  | Jia Han is the lead author of the article "3D measurements of plasma parameters in an industrial plasma etch tool" in "Physics of Plasmas." | Read More |
| 2019-11-04 |  | David Jewitt and colleagues have discovered twenty new moons of Saturn. This brings the ringed planet's total number of moons to 82, surpassing Jupiter, which has 79. | Read More |
| 2019-10-28 |  | Astronomer Tommaso Treu and colleagues have released a study suggesting that the universe is expanding more rapidly than previously thought. | Read More |
| 2019-10-25 |  | Lucy Fortson won the APS Nicholson Medal for "the humanitarian aspect of physics." Dr. Fortson received her Ph.D. in physics from UCLA in 1991. | Read More |
| 2019-10-25 |  | Ben Zuckerman and Hilke Schlichting have co-authored a study suggesting that Earth is not unique: Earth-like planets may be common in the universe. | Read More |
| 2019-10-24 |  | David Jewitt has captured the best and sharpest look at a comet from outside of our solar system that recently barged into our own. | Read More |
| 2019-10-22 |  | R. Michael Rich has led an international team carrying out a survey for the Haloes and Environments of Nearby Galaxies (HERON) collaboration. | Read More |
| 2019-10-22 |  | In a recent article in The Conversation, Brad Hansen discusses what moons in other solar systems reveal about planets like Neptune and Jupiter. | Read More |
| 2019-10-01 |  | Chris Regan and William Hubbard have received Microscopy Today's "Innovation Award" for their invention of SEEBIC imaging. | Read More |
| 2019-10-01 |  | UCLA has had four faculty named APS Fellows in the 2019 Cohort: Andrea Ghez, Eric Hudson, Aydogan Ozcan, and Chee Wei Wong. | Read More |
| 2019-10-01 |  | Prof. Stuart Brown and collaborators have published a major breakthrough in superconductivity in the journal Nature. | Read More |
| 2019-10-01 |  | The enormous black hole at the center of our galaxy is having an unusually large meal of interstellar gas and dust. Researchers don't yet understand why. | Read More |
| 2019-09-01 |  | Thomas Dumitrescu, assistant professor in the department, has been awarded the prestigious Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Award for his work "New Tools for Strongly Coupled Quantum Field Theories." | Read More |
| 2019-09-01 |  | Professor Nathan Whitehorn's project, IceCube, the Antarctic neutrino detector that in July of 2018 helped unravel one of the oldest riddles in physics and astronomy - the origin of high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays - is getting an upgrade. | Read More |
| 2019-08-07 |  | Dr. Beth Klein has been awarded the American Physical Society's M. Hildred Blewett Fellowship. Dr. Klein, a junior development engineer in the Astronomy Division, studies polluted white dwarf stars, elemental compositions of extrasolar planetesimals, formation and evolution of rocky planets and exoplanets, and high-resolution spectroscopy and imaging. | Read More |
| 2019-07-01 |  | At 6:56 in this video by Nature Magazine, Physics & Astronomy Professor Mayank Mehta discusses how virtual-reality mazes are helping to unlock the complexity of the human brain. | Read More |
| 2019-01-01 |  | More than 100 years after Albert Einstein published his iconic general theory of relativity, it is beginning to fray at the edges, said Andrea Ghez, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy. "Einstein's right, at least for now," said Ghez. | Read More |
