1+ week, 4+ day ago   (237+ words) A single particle interaction could be a signal from a dark matter candidate, though further study is needed. For the better part of a century, people have been trying to understand dark matter. This invisible substance makes up roughly 85% of…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (307+ words) MacDonald and two colleagues were honored for “foundational work that established the field of twistronics.” For the first time since the Kavli Prize was first awarded in 2008 by The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, a Texas-based researcher has been…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (177+ words) An era of precision gravitational astronomy has arrived, and UT physicists are helping lead the way. The LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Collaboration detected these 161 gravitational wave events between April 2024 and the end of January 2025. Each yellow curve represents the rapid shift…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (268+ words) Observation of BKT and six-state clock phases reveals how magnetism behaves in two dimensions and may inspire ultracompact technologies. When researchers at UT Austin coaxed an atomically thin sheet of nickel phosphorus trisulfide to enter a special magnetic phase, called…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (269+ words) Scott Aaronson, a professor of computer science at The University of Texas at Austin, was elected this week to the National Academy of Sciences. The academy is the country’s most prestigious scientific organization, and election to it is one of…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (136+ words) Annual welcome event for incoming students, hosted in coordination with University Events’ Gone to Texas. 6:30 p.m. Official event start. You may enter Welch Hall from East Mall or Speedway, just look for the “Gone to Natural Sciences” signs. 6:30-7:45 p.m....

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (157+ words) The two-year fellowships are awarded annually to early-career researchers seen as emerging leaders in their fields. Kimberly Boddy, an assistant professor of physics at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named a 2026 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, one of…...

7+ mon, 1+ day ago   (124+ words) William Gilpin in physics and Devleena Samanta in chemistry each were selected for the honor. The Research Corporation for Science Advancement has selected two faculty members from The University of Texas at Austin – William Gilpin, assistant professor of physics, and…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (150+ words) The University of Texas at Austin Astronomy on Tap ATX - UT Astronomy graduate student Ansh Gupta and postdoc Dr. Tiger Hsiao on “Audience Questions on our Universe Answered (AQUA)” - UT Astronomy postdoc Dr. Archana Aravindan on “The Missing Middle: Black…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (426+ words) Researchers may have glimpsed a supersolid, an enigmatic quantum version of a classical solid. What happens when you cool a superfluid down even more? The answer to this question has eluded physicists since they first started asking it half a…...