News: Physics

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...

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...

E.C George Sudarshan made many contributions to theoretical physics, including the foundations of quantum optics and the proposal of new particles called tachyons.

Five years ago the College of Natural Sciences began an annual tradition called Visualizing Science with the intent of finding the inherent beauty hidden within...

What is the sound of two neutron stars colliding over 1 billion light years away?

No scientific discovery happens in isolation. See how UT Austin scientists and alumni are changing the world.

The NSF grant, distributed over a six-year period through its Division of Materials Research, will launch a new Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)...