George Smoot, who led the team that first measured tiny fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background, passed away on 18 ...

Researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have reported the first ...

Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder may have solved a pressing mystery about the universe's gravitational wave ...

The earliest acoustic vibrations in the cosmos weren’t exactly sound – they travelled at half the speed of light and there ...

ABSTRACT: We build upon previously proposed empirical equations involving the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and extend the approach to include an empirical formulation for the ...

Students with an interest in sports looking to add a science course to their schedule may consider an updated four credit-hour version of a course offered through the physics department: Physics 1111: ...

ABSTRACT: The possibility of determining the Hubble constant is considered based on the hypothesis of the physical essence of time as our perception of the displacement of the three-dimensional space ...

As the director of medical physics at Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, Aaron Andersen describes himself as ‘a Rebel living in Wolfpack territory.’ For the past nine years, he’s been responsible ...

A party’s on at Synergy, but the partygoers aren’t any ordinary attendees. In fact, most of them are physics majors. This “phrave,” or physics rave, was organized by the Stanford University Physics ...