COLLEGE STATION — Make a date for free family fun and experience the many wonders of science and technology this weekend at the 2014 Physics and Engineering Festival, scheduled for Saturday (March 22) on the Texas A&M University campus. No fees or tickets are required for the free annual event, which will run from 10 […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. M. Suhail Zubairy, professor of physics and astronomy and inaugural holder of the Munnerlyn-Heep Chair in Quantum Optics at Texas A&M University, has been appointed as a University Distinguished Professor, effective Sept. 1, 2014. Zubairy, a member of Texas A&M’s world-class Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering (IQSE) who is widely […]
Scientists looking for dark matter face a serious challenge: No one knows what dark matter particles look like. So their search covers a wide range of possible traits, including different masses and different probabilities of interacting with regular matter. Today, scientists with the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment, or CDMS — which includes Texas A&M […]
COLLEGE STATION — The Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University invite audiences across Texas to get up-close and personal with science and technology next month at the 2014 Physics & Engineering Festival, an entertaining and informative weekend scientific extravaganza for all ages. No fees or tickets are […]
PASADENA, Calif. — The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) project, in which Texas A&M University is a founding partner, has successfully passed two major reviews, completing its detailed design phase and positioning the project to enter the construction phase. When completed, the 25-meter GMT will have more than six times the collecting area of the largest […]
UPTON, NY Robert Tribble, a widely respected physicist who has played a key role in charting the future direction of nuclear science in the U.S., has been named Deputy Director for Science & Technology at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, effective February 24, 2014. Tribble is currently a Distinguished Professor of Physics […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University physicist Helmut G. Katzgraber’s research takes him to the crossroads of physics, computer science, quantum information theory and statistical mechanics. For more than a decade, he has been pushing the frontiers of computational physics to study hard optimization problems and disordered materials, applying his expertise to problems in the […]
COLLEGE STATION — Indara Suarez didn’t speak a word of English when she arrived to the U.S. from Mexico at age 12. The grades she made in high school weren’t good enough to get her into a four-year university. Now as a doctoral student at Texas A&M University working toward a Ph.D. in high-energy physics, […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University physicist Roland E. Allen has written a comprehensive review of the Higgs boson that explains the significance of this elusive particle, its recent experimental discovery and the Nobel Prize-winning proposal for its existence nearly half a century ago. Allen’s paper, “The Higgs Bridge,” was published Monday (Dec. 9) by […]
PASADENA, Calif. The Giant Magellan Telescope’s third primary mirror will be unveiled at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory Mirror Lab (SOML) on December 6, 2013. The combined surface area of the three mirrors created to date surpasses that of any existing telescope and will help enable astronomers to peer more deeply into space than […]
CALVERT — On 1,000 acres of verdant grass and dirt trails 35 miles north of Bryan and strewn with some 200 cows and calves, world-renowned Texas A&M University quantum physicist Marlan Scully is cultivating a vision befitting his nickname, “the Quantum Cowboy” — a farm where he combines cutting-edge laser research with student teaching, from […]
COLLEGE STATION — Jairo Sinova, professor of physics at Texas A&M University, has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship — one of the most eminent and highly endowed research posts in Germany — in recognition of outstanding achievements in science. Since 2008 the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded up to 10 professorships per […]
LEAD, S.D. — A massive experiment quietly operating since spring roughly a mile underground in the Black Hills of South Dakota and involving liquid xenon, the world’s biggest detector and about a hundred international scientists — including Texas A&M University physicists — has proven itself the most sensitive dark matter detector in the world. Among […]
COLLEGE STATION — A three-year, $10.8 million investment by the Texas A&M University System is set to provide a major boost to multidisciplinary quantum biophotonics research across the Texas A&M University campus. Biophotonics combines biology and photonics, which is the study of quantum units of light called photons. Researchers will draw on sophisticated laser technology […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin may be former football rivals, but the Lone Star State’s two research giants have teamed up to detect the most distant spectroscopically confirmed galaxy ever found — one created within 700 million years after the Big Bang. The research is published in […]
COLLEGE STATION — Nicholas B. Suntzeff, university distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University, has been recognized as one of three faculty recipients of 2013 Bush Excellence Awards for international teaching, international research and public service. Suntzeff, who was honored for his excellence in international research, received the prestigious award along with […]
COLLEGE STATION — A group of physicists from Texas A&M University are basking in the worldwide glow of big science, based on their critical supporting role along with thousands of scientists across the globe in the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded today (Oct. 8) by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to theorists Peter […]
COLLEGE STATION — On an otherwise unremarkable evening last Saturday (Aug. 31) in Chile, the first official image in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) was recorded by the world’s most powerful digital camera, marking the beginning of a new era of discoveries about dark energy and other mysteries of the universe. For hundreds of nights […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: One of the highlights of yesterday’s (Thursday, Aug. 8) memorial tribute celebrating the life of George P. Mitchell ’40 at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands, Texas, was a videotaped eulogy delivered by one of his lifelong heroes and friends, world-renowned Cambridge University theoretical physicist Stephen W. Hawking. The following is […]
TUCSON, Ariz. — On Saturday, August 24, 2013, the third mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) — of which Texas A&M University is a founding member — will be cast inside a rotating furnace at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory Mirror Lab (SOML), the only facility in the world where mirrors of this […]
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