Department of Physics

John Cramer, a professor emeritus in the UW Department of Physics, has created two different renditions of what the big bang might have sounded like.

The $3 million prize will be shared among the over 1,300 scientists, including University of Washington researchers.

Two teams of University of Washington researchers were members of the multinational, decades-long scientific groups that won.

A UW scientific team and biotech partner have created an innovative tool to directly detect the delicate, single-molecule interactions between DNA and enzymatic proteins.

Thanks to UW researchers, a 680-ton superconducting magnet is secure in its new home and nearly ready for a new era of discovery in particle physics.

The capital retrofit project has drastically reduced ventilation system waste in the iconic campus building

The world's clocks ticked an extra second on Tuesday, marking a so-called leap second so atomic clocks could match the earth's rotation.

A small group of determined scientists can make big contributions to physics.

Two faculty members are among the leaders from academia, business, philanthropy, humanities and the arts elected as 2015 fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

One of the longest-running and weirdest examples of a crowdfunded scientific experiment is finally reaching the end of the road.

When considering what makes up the universe, it’s surprising that scientists could focus on just one yes/no question. But that’s exactly what a group of researchers supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation is doing. 

University of Washington scientists have built a new nanometer-sized laser that is energy efficient, easy to build and compatible with existing electronics.

Scientists have developed what they believe is the thinnest-possible semiconductor, a new class of nanoscale materials made in sheets only three atoms thick.

Three major experiments aimed at detecting elusive dark matter particles believed to make up most of the matter in the universe have gotten a financial shot in the arm. Two of the projects are at large national laboratories; the other is at the University of Washington.

UW physics students build their own version of the Atlas particle detector, only much smaller - and using Legos.