Although rare, Bennett Maruca, associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Delaware, says that calling the illusion a “flash” is a bit of a misnomer. “It’s really not a flash,” ...

This is where things get (even) more complicated—but to condense it down, the effect makes a 3-petawatt laser appear one million times more powerful, hence the “zettawatt-equivalent” in ZEUS ...

Researchers in the University of California, Irvine’s Department of Physics & Astronomy were among thousands of scientists from 70 countries to share in the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics ...

It is one of the largest single structures in the sky and among the closest to the sun and Earth ever to be detected. view more Credit: Thomas Müller (HdA/MPIA) and Thavisha Dharmawardena (NYU) ...

An international team led by a Rutgers University astrophysicist has discovered a vast, potentially star-forming cloud of molecular hydrogen.

Pita was born and raised in Tutuila, American Samoa as one of 12 children. She played tennis for the University of Hawaii at Manoa for three years before transferring to BYU, where she received a ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Caltech president and pioneering physicist Thomas Rosenbaum, an expert in the promising field of quantum physics, will join Purdue University President Mung Chiang in April for ...

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in California. He was 88. Winston was a University of Chicago professor in the ...

Citations. F. Marchis et al.Asteroid characterization via citizen science: insights into size, shape, and rotation.American Geophysical Union annual meeting ...

With the imaging tool, the researchers observed Sagittarius A* for a total of 48 hours—in 8-to-10-hour increments across one year. This enabled scientists to track how the black hole changed ...

Physics and Astronomy is one of the seven departments within the Purdue University College of Science. World-class research is performed in astrophysics, atomic and molecular optics, accelerator mass ...

A century ago, this woman found out—and changed physics forever In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our understanding ...