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January 15, 2025
The Infosys Prize 2024 in Physical Sciences is awarded to Prof. Vedika Khemani for her groundbreaking contributions to theoretical and experimental…

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January 10, 2025
Monika Schleier-Smith’s journey to leading an experimental quantum physics lab at Stanford began with visions of peanut butter.

Students gather together for food and homework at the Stanford University Physics Society’s weekly study night. (Photo courtesy of León Garcia)

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January 6, 2025
A party’s on at Synergy, but the partygoers aren’t any ordinary attendees. In fact, most of them are physics majors. 
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December 11, 2024
Thanks to a new microwave-based imaging method they developed, researchers have successfully observed a material exhibiting intriguingly…

In 1976, SLAC’s Burton Richter (left) and MIT’s Samuel Ting were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their teams’ discoveries. This photo shows the two laureates at a SLAC symposium in 1984, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the J/psi discovery. (Archives, History & Records Office/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

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December 10, 2024
In 1974, the independent discovery of the J/psi particle at SLAC and Brookhaven National Laboratory rocked the physics world, and entire textbooks…

Stanford Data Science and KIPAC members Emmanuel Candès, Risa Wechsler, Susan Clark, and Chris Mentzel at the Center for Decoding the Universe fall forum. | PaulSakuma.com Photography

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December 3, 2024
A new center brings astrophysics, data science, and AI together to answer some of the universe’s biggest questions.
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November 23, 2024
Steven Chu, Nobel laureate and former U.S. Secretary of Energy, has been awarded the Inaugural Chien-Shiung Wu Lifetime Achievement Medal.
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November 19, 2024
Stanford seniors Francesca Fernandes, Alvin Lee, Mikayla Tillery, and Kate Tully are among the recipients of the 2025…

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November 19, 2024
The Milky Way galaxy has long been considered the ideal model for studying galactic evolution.
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November 14, 2024
The Infosys Prize 2024 in Physical Sciences is awarded to Prof.
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November 6, 2024
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Risa Wechsler photo by Harrison Truong for Stanford University. Susan Clark photo by Do Pham / Stanford University.

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October 31, 2024
Risa Wechsler, professor of physics and director of the Kavli Institute of Particle…
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