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  • 10 Black Women in Academia That You Need To Know About

    African Americans make up 7 percent of American college and university faculty. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a theoretical physicist at the UW, is featured.

    02/09/2017
  • Scientists plan to march on Washington — but where will it get them?

    In April, thousands of scientists will take to the streets to rally on behalf of publicly funded, openly communicated, evidence-based research.

    02/09/2017
  • Russian Jamming Got You Down? Try Talking Underwater

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is preparing to test a network of radio relays on sea buoys (developed by the UW's Applied Physics Lab) and connected via fiber-optic cable.

    01/13/2017
  • UW Hyperloop team fuels its final dash to the national pod races with crowdfunding

    The UW’s Hyperloop team is getting ready to compete in a set of pod races aimed at blazing a trail for a new means of near-supersonic travel – but they need a little help to get to the starting line.
    01/10/2017 | Geek Wire
  • Dark Matter Hunters Are Hoping 2017 Is Their Year

    It can be unsettling to realize that only 5 percent of the universe is made of the kind of matter we know and understand. Leslie Rosenberg, professor of physics at the UW, is quoted.
    01/03/2017 | Motherboard
  • Microsoft researchers lay down a big bet on topological quantum computers

    Microsoft says it’s moving ahead from just talking about quantum computing to building an actual quantum computer, based on the physics that won a Nobel Prize this year.

    11/22/2016
  • Quantum computers can talk to each other via a photon translator

    Researchers have come up with a way to allow one quantum computer component to efficiently transmit information to another, without losing its quantum character. 

    11/16/2016
  • The Structures of Our Cells Live Inside the Stars

    Instead of being unique to human cells, it turns out that Terasaki "ramps" show up elsewhere, too: in the crust of collapsed stars.

    11/07/2016
  • Axion Alert! Exotic Particle Detector May Miss Out on Dark Matter

    Supercomputer calculation suggests hypothesized particle may be heavier than thought.

    11/07/2016
  • For Physics, Another Nobel

    Professor Emeritus David Thouless is the Physics Department's second Nobel Prize recipient. 

    November 2016 Perspectives
  • What The Hell Is Going On With Dark Energy?

    Last week, the science media was abuzz with reports that dark energy might not exist. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, postdoctoral associate in physics at the UW, is quoted. 

    11/02/2016
  • Foreign-born professors account for US Nobel haul

    Of the six winners of Nobel Prizes affiliated with American universities so far this year, all are foreign born. 

    10/11/2016
  • Are the Nobel prizes missing female scientists?

    A total of 203 people have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, but only two were women.

    10/10/2016
  • UW's David Thouless wins share of Nobel physics prize for weird science of superconductors

    David Thouless, a British-born professor emeritus at the University of Washington, has been awarded half of this year’s Nobel physics prize.

    10/05/2016
  • Bagels and buns: The research that won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics explained

    This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics went to three men — all born in Britain, but working at U.S. universities.
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