Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

Claudio Chamon will join the Purdue University College of Science beginning fall 2025. Photo by Frank Curran. Quantum science is the next frontier in scientific achievement and Purdue University is ...

The Panel on Particle Astrophysics and Gravitation (PAG) will identify and suggest to the Astro2020 decadal survey committee a program of federal investment in research activities exploring areas at ...

Ever since it opened its giant infrared eye on the cosmos after its December 2021 launch, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been finding an overabundance of bright galaxies that stretch back ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

A professor at the University of Tennessee reimagines the way we teach STEM with a science-fiction story-based class. In the beginning, a spaceship called the Yggdrasil is sailing through the cosmos ...

Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That's what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in Earth sciences and seismology, she gets much of her data from a bird's-eye ...

A $200,000 unrestricted physics endowment to the Louisiana Tech University College of Engineering and Science honors the life ...