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July 15, 2022
Upon seeing JWST’s first trove of images, Stanford astrophysicist and cosmologist Risa Wechsler…
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July 5, 2022
Douglas Stanford is a professor at Stanford University. As a member of It from Qubit, he was a postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study, in…
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June 7, 2022
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Photo by Linda Cicero

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June 3, 2022
Several changes to the current requirements for the Physics major and the
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June 3, 2022
Risa Wechsler (Ph.D. Physics’ 01) has always been interested in the biggest questions of the universe: 
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May 9, 2022
Mark Kasevich is an experimental physicist whose work informs development of high-accuracy navigation and sensing.
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May 2, 2022
Shamit Kachru is the Wells Family Director of the
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May 2, 2022
In the time since the first exoplanet was discovered in 1992, astronomers have detected more than 5,000 planets orbiting other stars.
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Physicist Kent Irwin (first image,far left) and colleagues work with a delicate wire coil called an inductor for a prototype of Dark Matter Radio, their radio circuit that searches for dark matter. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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April 29, 2022
Source: Science Magazine