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The Buchalter Cosmology Prize is pleased to announce the 2015 winners. The full press release can be found below.

One could say that snowflakes are simply frozen water —

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Published: December 22, 2015, 8:44 am

One could say that snowflakes are simply frozen water —

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Published: December 22, 2015, 8:44 am

• By Marcus Woo

Space can be a violent place. Asteroids and comets slam into planets, stars explode - or they are ripped apart by black holes.

But in terms of scale, perhaps nothing is as violent as the collisions between huge clusters of galaxies.

December 14th, 2015 @ 12:38 pm by Andy Fell

Contributed by the LUX Collaboration

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which operates nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in the Black Hills of South Dakota, has already proven itself to be the most sensitive dark matter detector in the world. Now, a new set of calibration techniques employed by LUX scientists has again dramatically improved its sensitivity.

Published: December 10, 2015, 1:55 pm

Published: November 30, 2015, 10:08 am

The Physics department has hired four new faculty and Math has hired one new faculty, all in the areas of quantum field theory, gravity, and strings. Veronika Hubeny and Mukund Rangamani arrived in the Physics department this September, Jaroslav Trnka will arrive in December, and Sergei Dubovsky and will begin July 2016. Tudor Dimofte will join the Math department in 2016. All the positions are part of campus Hiring Investment Program.

By Becky Oskin

Billions of mysterious particles called neutrinos bombard your body every day. But catching even one neutrino is a huge effort. Nearly all neutrinos pass through people — and even our planet Earth — without a trace.

Come learn about the exciting new research program in the Physics and Mathematics departments, aimed at understanding how our Universe works! The reception will be held on Thursday, October 29 from 5pm to 7:30pm in the Physics Department Atrium.

Published: October 22, 2015, 4:05 pm

October 8th, 2015 @ 2:00 am by Andy Fell

Published: October 2, 2015, 2:11 pm

Lloyd Knox hunts for answers about the universe's creation

The cosmologist has boosted the search for particles called neutrinos that are key to research

His research measures the universe's origins 13.8 billion years ago

Lead researcher and team leader Lloyd Knox is working on research into neutrinos and other items that physicists use to unvavel the secrets of the Big Bang. Lezlie Sterling [email protected]