2023-24 ‘Best Graduate Schools’
Categories:
New rankings from U.S. News & World Report are out—see how the U ranked in the 2023-24 “Best Graduate Schools.”
Read MoreTag: Physics
Nyawelo wins 2023 Spirit of Salam Award
The award honors researchers who promote the development of science in disadvantaged parts of the world, who embody Abdus Salam’s conviction that science is the common heritage of humankind.
Read MoreSpace dust as Earth’s sun shield
Categories:
Dust launched from the moon’s surface or from a space station positioned between Earth and the sun could reduce enough solar radiation to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
Read MoreU astronomers tackle decade’s biggest questions
Categories:
The innovative research from U physics and astronomy hit the areas that the national community determined as priorities in a once-in-a-decade report that guides the direction of astro-research for years to come.
Read MoreHow to thermally cloak an object
Categories:
Theoretical method can make objects invisible to a thermal camera, or mimic a different object
Read MoreDark sky’s future leaders
Categories:
The first undergraduate cohort of the dark sky studies minor completed the Dark Sky Studies Capstone course with projects that made an impact in Utah’s communities.
Read MoreNobel Laureate to speak on changing the illumination of the world
Categories:
Shuji Nakamura won the prize in 2014.
Read More5 ways that U scientists are addressing the COVID-19 pandemic
Categories:
Within a few short weeks, more than a dozen new research studies have popped up across the U to study coronavirus.
Read MoreDiscovery points to origin of mysterious ultraviolet radiation
Categories:
Infalling gas found, star-forming galaxies likely primary energy source of Lyman-alpha radiation emitted from gigantic hydrogen gas blobs.
Read MoreThe role of lizard lungs in evolutionary biology
Categories:
Savannah monitor lizards have a unique airflow pattern that is a hybrid of bird and mammal flow patterns.
Read More