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Night skies of August hold wonders
Christopher Phillips, a research specialist in the Department of Physics, explains why there will be ideal conditions for stargazing in August.
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UW professor Ann Nelson remembered as brilliant physicist, advocate for diversity in science
From becoming an accomplished physicist to summiting mountains, Dr. Nelson spent her life focused on the next goal — and on giving others a hand along the way.
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Virtually Physics
Doctoral student Jared Canright is exploring the potential of virtual reality to explain physics concepts to UW undergraduates.
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UW professors to receive 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers is the highest honor given by the U.S. government to early career scientists and engineers.
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Climate change expert named 2019 ASLD
UW honors longtime Harvard professor and one of America's leading climate change scientists, James Anderson (BS, Physics, 1966).
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Two UW students honored by Goldwater Foundation
Selected from 1,223 nominees from across the country, Natural Sciences undergraduates Chris Moore and Irika Sinha were named Goldwater Scholars.
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David Thouless–Nobel laureate and UW professor emeritus–dies at age 84
Thouless was a theoretical physicist whose most well-known work focused on the properties of matter in extremely thin layers.
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UW, Microsoft, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory establish new Northwest Quantum Nexus
Learn about how this exciting new coalition aimed at bringing about a revolution in quantum research and technology.
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FASER detector at the Large Hadron Collider to seek clues about hidden matter in the universe
Shih-Chieh Hsu, associate professor of physics at UW, and the rest of the FASER team seek to answer one of the outstanding questions in particle physics: What is dark matter made of?
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Physicists stack 2D materials at angles to trap particles on the nanoscale
A team of UW-led physicists reports that it has developed a new system to trap individual excitons — bound pairs of electrons and their associated positive charges
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UW physicist named Packard Fellow
UW physicist Jiun-Haw Chu named Packard Fellow for research on quantum materials.
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Three new physics experiments could revamp the standard model
Physics Graduate Student Rachel Osofsky is quoted about her work adjusting the magnetic field of a new electromagnetic ring.
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For UW physicists, the 2-D form of tungsten ditelluride is full of surprises
For a team led by scientists at the UW, the 2-D form of one metallic compound — tungsten ditelluride, or WTe2 — is a bevy of quantum revelations.
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Atomically thin magnetic device could lead to new memory technologies
A University of Washington-led team is working on a magnetic breakthrough that may revolutionize both cloud computing technologies and consumer electronics.
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After 30 years of R&D, breakthrough announced in dark matter detection technology, definitive search to begin for axion particles
The Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) at the University of Washington is the world's first experiment to be sensitive enough to "hear" the signs of dark matter axions.