The Martin A. Fisher School of Physics enjoys an international reputation for excellence in research, and is one of the highest-ranked of its size in the country. The department offers rigorous ...

Physicist Lisa Randall believes an extra dimension may exist close to our familiar reality, hidden except for a bizarre sapping of the strength of gravity as we see it. Boston Globe via Getty ...

Assistant Professors Benedetta Flebus and Qiong Ma each receive a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation Assistant Professors of Physics Qiong Ma and Benedetta Flebus each have received a ...

I had a freshly minted bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard, and I was raring to launch into graduate study. But within a couple of weeks, the more advanced students had sucked the wind ...

Strange metal investigator: Qimiao Si is the Harry C and Olga K Wiess Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice. (Courtesy: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University) A concept from quantum information theory ...

It is a collective term for areas of study including astronomy, chemistry, materials science and physics. An antisolvent-seeding strategy enhanced self-assembled monolayer formation, enabling the ...

Jan. 6, 2025 — Physicists have proposed a solution to a long-standing puzzle surrounding the GD-1 stellar stream, one of the most well-studied streams within the galactic halo of the Milky ...

Apr. 16, 2025 — Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar ...

In a physics first, a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a way to make beams of neutrons travel in curves. These Airy beams (named ...

Nuclear physics is the study of the protons and neutrons at the centre of an atom and the interactions that hold them together in a space just a few femtometres (10-15 metres) across. Example ...

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