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Tamura Symposium on Lepton and Baryon Symmetry
The 12th Tamura Symposium, co-hosted by UT Austin and Osaka University, honors the late nuclear theorist Taro Tamura and focuses on recent particle physics discoveries...
Meet Six Incredible Women from UT Austin Science History
From the first woman mathematician inducted into the National Academy of Science to an astronomer who helped us understand how galaxies evolve, the women of the Texas Science community have helped change the world—and our understanding of the universe.
Physicists Improve Key Component of Future Atom Microscope
Learn about how Mark Raizen and his team at UT Austin have developed the world's highest resolution atom lens.
Grad Students Lead the Greatest Show in Classical Physics
Glowing electric pickles, flaming money, and flying toilet paper help the Physics Circus at The University of Texas at Austin teach science to non-physicists, especially school children. Now a new matching gift will make it possible to maintain the program and its legacy, so that thousands more young students can benefit from the Circus fun.
Remembering A. Wilson Nolle
Physics professor emeritus Alfred Wilson Nolle passed away on February 11 at 97. A UT Austin alum who also researched at MIT and Harvard, Nolle...
Remembering Larry Shepley
Larry C. Shepley, Associate Professor Emeritus of Physics at UT Austin, passed away on December 30, 2016. Renowned for his work in cosmology and classical...
Visualizing Science 2016: Beautiful Images From Researchers in CNS
As part of an ongoing tradition, this past spring we invited faculty, staff and students in the College of Natural Sciences community to send us images that celebrated the wondrous beauty of science and the scientific process. We were searching for those moments where science and art meld and become one.
New Superconductor Could Pave Way to Practical Quantum Computers
New Superconductor Could Pave Way to Practical Quantum Computers
Phil Morrison's Dynamics
Philip Morrison, a professor at UT Austin's Institute for Fusion Studies, has won the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Humboldt Research Award. This honor allows him...
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Scientists Glimpse Inner Workings of Atomically Thin Transistors
Research led by Keji Lai used a microwave microcope to see inside of a transistor so thin it is essentially two-dimensional.