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Surviving a Volcanic Supereruption May Have Facilitated Human Dispersal Out of Africa
Graduate students Jessica Valdes and Keenan Riordan were on a team that found humans may have dispersed during arid times along “blue highways.”
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The Sun’s Corona: A Boiling Pot On An Ice Cube
Jarrod Bianco and Maile Marriott, two graduate students working with physicist Anna Tenerani, talk heliophysics.
New Quantum Sensing Center Aims to Transform Disease Diagnostics and Prevention
Mark Raizen is part of a new effort focused on translating discoveries from the physics lab to the clinic.
MacDonald Announced as Winner of Inaugural Hill Prize in Physical Sciences
Allan MacDonald of The University of Texas at Austin received the award for research with high-impact potential.
Excavation of Colossal Caverns for Neutrino Experiment Completed
The caverns in Lead, South Dakota, will house the gigantic particle detectors of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
Researchers Discover New Ways to Excite Spin Waves with Extreme Infrared Light
New ultrafast method for controlling magnetic materials might enable next-generation information processing technologies.
UT Austin Physicists Receive Keck Foundation Boost for Quantum Materials Research
Edoardo Baldini leads a team developing a new approach to stabilize useful quantum properties of atomically thin materials for far longer and at higher temperatures.
New Decadal Report Maps Out U.S. Priorities in Particle Physics Research
The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) whose participants include a UT physicist delivered recommendations to decision makers.
Compact Accelerator Technology Achieves Major Energy Milestone
Bjorn “Manuel” Hegelich led the development of a compact laser accelerator that produces an electron beam with an energy of 10 billion electron volts.
Gordon Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
Vernita Gordon, associate professor of physics, has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society. Recognized for her work on bacterial biofilms and their...