News: Physics
Read the latest news from the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin
Trick or Treat: Spooky Science to Give You a Scare
Halloween is a good season to treat yourself to some thrilling discoveries from scientists at UT Austin.
Gift From Love, Tito’s Helps Build Instrument To Track Ultrafast Electrons in Nanomaterials
The new instrument could lead to better materials for quantum computers and solar cells.
Allan MacDonald Named Citation Laureate
The annual recognition highlights researchers with extraordinary citation records and societal impact.
Natural Sciences Welcomes New Faculty Across the College
Familiar faces and newcomers alike are among the 13 newest tenured and tenure-track faculty members joining the college.
Dark Matter Experiment Sets New Sensitivity Record
The world’s most sensitive dark matter detector still hasn’t found evidence of weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, but the search continues.
Paving the Way to Extremely Fast, Compact Computer Memory
Materials with high magnetoelectric coupling could be useful in novel devices such as magnetic computer memories, chemical sensors and quantum computers.
Oden Institute
Summer School on Quantum Materials
Feliciano Guistino led a week-long workshop for graduate-level students in modern techniques for computational data science and high-performance computing.
Texas Advanced Computing Center
Surprising Vortex Behind New Solar Cell and Lighting Materials
Using supercomputer simulations, Feliciano Giustino and his team are revealing why perovskites are so promising for solar cells, lighting and computer memory.
Improved Method for Estimating the Hubble Constant with Gravitational Waves
There’s a big debate in cosmology about how fast the universe is currently expanding.
Defense Research Advancement
Physicists Earn Recognition for Innovative Research
Early career researchers from the Department of Physics were selected for highly competitive Department of Defense awards.
