News: Physics

Roy Schwitters, a world-renowned experimental high-energy physicist and emeritus professor, passed away earlier this month.

Learn about how UT Austin physicists are using human muscles to design more efficiently designed robots.

Chelikowsky, Director of the Center for Computational Materials at the Oden Institute, received the 2022 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for Theory.

UT Austin's Timothy Liao has been selected to participate in a research program where he will develop computational tools for material design and discovery.

Learn about faculty members from UT Austin's College of Natural Sciences who have been awarded CAREER Awards from the National Science Foundation.

The winners of our most recent Visualizing Science contest include an image related to “smart” material research, simulations of a meeting between a neutron star...

Experimental physicist Mark Raizen found himself intrigued by the unrealized potential of Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg's paper.

A new report releases what the nation’s best degrees of the future are.

James Truchard, Richard Hinojosa, and David Booth were honored for their outstanding career accomplishments and lasting commitment to the college.

UT Austin researchers' new acoustic component, made of aluminum nitride and configured into periodic phononic crystals, allows engineers to direct high frequency elastic waves along...