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October 2, 2023
When Sam Boeschen ’25 enters the rock climbing wall at the Arrillaga Outdoor Education & Recreation Center (AOERC), he finds a “feeling of total…
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September 29, 2023
Lab managers Rick Pam and George Yan, who have a combined 60+ years of service to the Physics Department, retired in 2023. 
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September 26, 2023
How many times have you shown up to a video meeting with people at work only to find you have terrible internet that day?
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September 19, 2023
Professor Roger Blandford, FRS, FRAS, is the Luke Blossom Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Professor of Physics and of…
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September 11, 2023
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September 1, 2023
Since the 1960s there has been plenty of evidence to support the existence of dark matter through astrophysical and cosmological observations, and at…
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August 28, 2023
BEC Awards 2023The TOPTICA Senior and Junior BEC Awards 2023 honor outstanding research in Experimental and/or Theoretical Physics of Quantum…

Roger Blandford. Photo by Cindy Pearson / Stanford University

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August 25, 2023
Roger Blandford, the Luke Blossom Professor in the Stanford School of Humanities and…

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August 22, 2023
ICTP has awarded its 2023 Dirac Medal to four

Shreya Vardhan, a physicist now at Stanford University, showed that error-correcting codes that delete information could make sense.

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July 19, 2023
“It’s going to double the mapping speed of the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver and make our observatory phenomenally sensitive,” said …

The Stanford researchers involved in the SALSA study are thrilled with their fascinating findings and the cake awaiting them after the photo shoot. Top (l to r)...

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July 14, 2023
Magnetic fields are common throughout the universe but incredibly challenging to study.