William Matthaeus, the Martin A. Pomerantz Chair of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, has won UD’s highest faculty honor — the Francis Alison Award — in recognition of his ...

Long before the women who helped win the space race were depicted in the 2016 film “Hidden Figures,” women were making contributions to science that far outpaced the credit they were given for their ...

Researchers have discovered unexpected 1D-like spin behavior in a triangular molecular lattice, challenging the conventional ...

A decade ago, physicists using twin detectors in Washington State and Louisiana detected gravitational waves—subtle ripples ...

By blending digital control with analog simulations, scientists have created a powerful new quantum simulator that pushes ...

The 2025 Poynter Journalism Prizes contest is now open for entries. Go here to submit your entry today. The final deadline for entries will be 6 p.m. Feb. 14, 2025. An early bird discounted ...

Richard Martin Wilstätter was born in Karlsruhe on August 13, 1872. His father was a cloth merchant. In From My Life ...

This is about tennis professional earnings. As you may have heard, the top prizes at the Australian Open are a whopping $3.5 million. That’s a huge payday for two weeks of tennis. But the big ...

Have you ever had the chance to hear a Nobel Prize winner speak? Hutchinson High School student Brockton Jordahl did recently thanks to a nomination. Dr. John C. Mather, winner of the Nobel Prize ...

The International Year of Quantum Science and Technology gets under way at an event at UNESCO headquarters in Paris ...

Princeton's John Hopfield, the 2024 Nobel Laureate in Physics, and alumnus Fei-Fei Li of the Class of 1999 were two of seven ...

Phase transitions, shifts between different states of matter, are widely explored physical phenomena. So far, these ...