Wisconsin's Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in physics
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Claude broke a nine-loop physics record for under $2,000. Here's how the AI solved the problem, what scientists verified, and why it matters.
Last year’s prize went to scientists studying the strange behavior of subatomic particles that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by MRI machines and laid the groundwork for better cellphones and faster computers.
Physics is available to most high school students, but only about two in five students take it (White & Chu, 2026). This report examines high school physics enrollment by the type of course using data from the 2023–24 Nationwide High School Physics Survey and explores students’ pathways through physics,
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Giant cloud that forms and vanishes on Mars every day obeys 'exotic physics' never seen on Earth
New simulations suggest that the perplexing Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud (AMEC) repeatedly emerges in the Red Planet's skies thanks to a never-before-seen meteorological process.
Beneath the South Pole, a cubic kilometre of ice has spent years catching the faintest flashes in the universe. The scientist who dreamt it up has won the Nobel Prize in Physics, and Indian physicists explain what the ice block has found and where India can help next.
Philip Ball’s entertaining biography is a guide to both the life of the Danish physicist and the mind-boggling quantum science that he, alongside Einstein, did much to advance
WKU Department of Physics & Astronomy will host “A Nightmare on Physics Avenue III” from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, October 27, in Kelly Thompson Hall on WKU’s campus.