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The winner of the 2019 Lilienfeld Prize, given annually by the American Physical Society for outstanding contributions in physics, develops theories about dark matter and what happened at the start of the universe.

We asked graduating seniors from across the college to share their best tips for research success.

We're celebrating the 150th anniversary of the periodic table. Join us as we tour the cosmos, from the microscopic to the telescopic, with four scientists studying the role of four elements—zinc, oxygen, palladium and gold—in life, the universe and everything.

Scientists often talk about the people who mentored them, and the students and postdocs they supervise, in ways that sound like a family.

Scientist Kip Thorne talks with his former graduate student Bill Press about what it's like to work on a major Hollywood film.

Researchers from the U.S. and Japan have demonstrated that they can store and retrieve information magnetically in a new class of materials.

The scientists looking for gravitational waves reported that last year they observed four additional ripples in space-time. During about a nine-month period, scientists including UT Austins Aaron Zimmerman made the observation with the National Science Foundation’s LIGO collaboration.

Winners of the 2018 Visualizing Science contest include images of nanomaterials, the connection between chaos and electronics and a glimpse into the aural lives of the elderly.

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The Department of Physics mourns the loss of former professor James Chilton Thompson, who passed away on July 16 at 88. A dedicated faculty member...