The theory of special relativity is rife with counterintuitive and surprising effects, the most famous of which are length ...

Led by Professor Riccardo Sapienza from the Department of Physics, this research team explored how light interacts with a ...

Scientists have taken inspiration from the way sunlight passes through clouds to discover an entirely new way of controlling ...

According to physicist Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity, on which much of modern physics is based, nothing in the universe can travel faster than light. The theory states that as ...

Lab Spotlight” is a biweekly column that highlights UW centers, institutions, and labs that are assets to their respective ...

Researchers have developed an innovative technique to search for black hole light echoes. Their novel method, which will make it easier for the mass and the spin of black holes to be measured, ...

Located about 548 light-years away, in the constellation Orion, Betelgeuse is the 10 th brightest star in the night sky.

And it ultimately led to Koshiba being awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments that ... products such as X-ray tubes and a range of light detectors and lasers are found inside ...

Our group studies the physics of imaging and new methods of imaging physics. Examples include optical hydrodynamics, in which the propagation of light is described in terms of fluid flow, statistical ...

Atoms, electrons, light waves, none of these things followed the normal rules. As physicists like Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein began to study particles, they discovered new physics laws that ...

(Courtesy: Vahram Mekhitarian/CC BY-SA 4.0) Research done at a mountaintop cosmic-ray observatory in Armenia has shed new light on how thunderstorms can ... the Cosmic Ray Division of Armenia’s ...

The remarkable career of Charles H. Townes, inventor of the maser and laser for which he shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics, has spanned seven decades. His interests have ranged from the origin of ...