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January 29, 2026
A light has emerged at the end of the tunnel in the long pursuit of developing quantum computers, which are expected to radically reduce the time…
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January 27, 2026
As the Dark Energy Survey (DES) …
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January 12, 2026
Astronomers analyzing data from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S.…
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December 8, 2025
Present-day quantum computers are big, expensive, and impractical, operating at temperatures near -459 degrees Fahrenheit, or “absolute zero.” In a…
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October 22, 2025
Introducing Geoff Penington:Joined the Department July, 2025
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September 24, 2025
It’s April 2025, and the NSF–DOE Vera C.
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September 17, 2025
On Monday, Nobel laureate and former U.S.
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September 2, 2025
The search for dark matter and other elusive cosmic relics receives a significant boost from new research demonstrating a pathway to dramatically…
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July 11, 2025
The European Physical Society has awarded a top prize to the teams behind the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which has yielded better understanding…
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July 7, 2025
Stanford physicist Lauren Tompkins is trying to solve the mysteries of the universe with subatomic particles. Such work requires teams of thousands…
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June 30, 2025
A foundational gift from the Leinweber Foundation is naming the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics in the …