COLLEGE STATION — Houston businessman George P. Mitchell, a 1940 distinguished petroleum engineering graduate of Texas A&M University, legendary oil and gas pioneer and real estate developer, and all-time most generous donor in Texas A&M history, has passed away at the age of 94. Memorial service arrangements are pending for Mitchell, who died Friday (July […]
GENEVA — After a quarter of a century of searching, physicists have discovered a rare particle decay that gives them an indirect way to test models of new physics. Researchers with the CMS and LHCb collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN announced today (Friday, July 19) at the EPS-HEP Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, […]
COLLEGE STATION Paula Hiltibidal muddled through teaching high school physics in the 1990s at Richland High School near Fort Worth. Then one day, a colleague told her about a program at Texas A&M University run by then-Texas A&M physics professor Robert Clark that aimed to teach high school teachers basic physics concepts so they would […]
Top three winners of the Spring 2013 Pearson Mechanics Challenge Exam. From left: Dr. Dan Melconian, Yinwei “Charlie” Zhang (2nd place), Xing Zhao (1st place), Gabriel Apfel (3rd place), Department Head Dr. George Welch and Dr. David Toback.
COLLEGE STATION — In the mind of Texas A&M University physicist Peter McIntyre, two of America’s most pressing energy challenges — what to do with radiotoxic spent nuclear fuel and dwindling energy resources — can be solved in one scientific swipe. He is developing the technology that is capable of destroying the dangerous waste and, […]
COLLEGE STATION — In the bizarre world of quantum physics, objects can be in more than one place at a time and future events can change the past. New research involving a Texas A&M University professor makes that microscopic realm even a bit stranger. Quantum physicist M. Suhail Zubairy, along with a post-doctoral fellow and […]
COLLEGE STATION — An international collaboration whose search for dark matter is powered by detectors being fabricated at Texas A&M University has for the first time observed a concrete hint of what physicists believe to be the particle behind dark matter and therefore nearly a quarter of the universe — a WIMP, or weakly interacting […]
COLLEGE STATION — Collecting dust at a warehouse in Switzerland is a piece of space junk that Texas A&M University physicist Peter McIntyre and his team worked on for three years. Though the magnet never left Earth — the casualty of a NASA policy change — McIntyre’s effort helped make him one of many co-authors […]
COLLEGE STATION — Make a date for free family fun and get up-close and personal with the many wonders of science and technology this weekend at the 2013 Physics and Engineering Festival, scheduled for Saturday (April 6) on the Texas A&M University campus. No fees or tickets are required for the free annual event, which […]
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 2013 Physics & Engineering Festival, an entertaining and informative weekend scientific extravaganza for all ages. No fees or tickets are […]
COLLEGE STATION — Heads up from Texas A&M University astronomers regarding Comet PanSTARRS, which will be visible to the naked eye as it zips through the skies over Bryan-College Station and the northern hemisphere starting this week. Don Carona, manager of the Texas A&M Physics and Astronomy Teaching Observatory, advises scanning the western horizon for […]
COLLEGE STATION — Scientists from around the world will join Texas A&M University’s top experts in high-energy physics and astrophysics for a three-day workshop beginning Friday (March 8) that will delve into dark matter, the unknown substance that makes up nearly a quarter of the universe. Roughly three dozen dark-matter researchers from the U.S. and […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Nicholas B. Suntzeff, professor of physics and astronomy and inaugural holder of the Mitchell-Heep-Munnerlyn Chair in Observational Astronomy at Texas A&M University, has been appointed as a University Distinguished Professor, effective Sept. 1, 2013. Suntzeff, director of the Texas A&M astronomy program and a member of the George P. and Cynthia […]
AUSTIN — Houston businessman George P. Mitchell, a 1940 distinguished petroleum engineering graduate of Texas A&M University and founder of Mitchell Energy & Development Corp., has been honored by the Texas State History Museum Foundation Board of Trustees with the 2013 History-Making Texan Award. Dignitaries from around the state gathered Wednesday (Feb. 27) at The […]
COLLEGE STATION — There is research that is off the wall, some off the charts and some off the planet, such as what a Texas A&M University aerospace and physics professor is exploring. It’s a plan to deflect a killer asteroid by using paint, and the science behind it is absolutely rock solid, so to […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new report from a government committee chaired by Texas A&M University physicist Robert Tribble has major implications for the future of U.S. nuclear science. Tribble, director of the Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute, oversaw the creation of the report, accepted today (Jan. 29) by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)/National Science Foundation […]
The top fall 2012 Mechanics Scholars: (from left) Jose Roberto Dimas Valle and Andrew Baxter (tie for third), Andrew Kostrzewa (1st), Department Head George Welch, Jacob Shaw (2nd) and professor/organizer David Toback.
COLLEGE STATION — A decade after making his first million-dollar gift intended to help transform Texas A&M University into a world leader in fundamental physics and astronomy, Houston businessman George P. Mitchell has come full circle in that commitment with a $20 million legacy gift to benefit the namesake institute where it all began. Mitchell, […]
COLLEGE STATION — As their football squads prepare to meet for the first time in Southeastern Conference history Saturday (Oct. 20) at Kyle Field, Texas A&M University and Louisiana State University are teaming up to study collisions of another variety — the nuclear kind — on one of the world’s biggest stages for nuclear astrophysics, […]
TUSCON — Scientists at the University of Arizona and in California have completed the most challenging large astronomical mirror ever made. For the past several years, a group of optical scientists and engineers working at the UA Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory underneath the UA’s football stadium have been polishing an 8.4-meter (27.5 feet) diameter mirror […]
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