Tag: life & news
Our team of physicists inadvertently generated the shortest X-ray pulses ever observed
Uwe Bergmann, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Thomas Linker, Stanford University
X-ray beams aren’t used just by doctors to see...
What the First Amendment doesn’t protect when it comes to professors...
Neal H. Hutchens, University of Kentucky and Jeffrey C. Sun, University of Louisville
American colleges and universities are increasingly...
New student loan limits could change who gets to become a...
Rodney Coates, Miami University
As millions of student loan borrowers settle into the school year, many are stressed about...
‘Space tornadoes’ could cause geomagnetic storms – but these phenomena, spun...
Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, University of Michigan and Ward B. (Chip) Manchester, University of Michigan
Weather forecasting is a powerful tool....
Far fewer Americans support political violence than recent polls suggest
Ryan Kennedy, The Ohio State University
A series of recent events has sparked alarm about rising levels of political...
María Corina Machado’s peace prize follows Nobel tradition of awarding recipients...
David Smilde, Tulane University
Few can doubt the courage María Corina Machado has shown in fighting for a return...
From artificial atoms to quantum information machines: Inside the 2025 Nobel...
Zhixin Wang, University of California, Santa Barbara
The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics honors three quantum physicists – John...
Our engineering team is making versatile, tiny sensors from the Nobel-winning...
Jie Huang, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Bohong Zhang, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Chen Zhu, Missouri University of Science...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
