Physics

The long and strange lives of Enrico Fermi’s accelerator building at UChicago Exterior of the building

The long and strange lives of Enrico Fermi’s accelerator building at UChicago

Gene Mazenko, UChicago physicist and leading theorist in statistical mechanics, 1945–2024 Black and white photo of Mazenko in a white shirt and tie looking at camera in front of bookcases

Gene Mazenko, UChicago physicist and leading theorist in statistical mechanics, 1945–2024

UChicago’s Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics celebrates 20 years of discovery Group photo of 100+ people outside a building with many windows

UChicago’s Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics celebrates 20 years of discovery

Upgraded synchrotron starts up at Argonne National Laboratory Scientist reaches out to flip a switch on a board with a colleague visible further away

Upgraded synchrotron starts up at Argonne National Laboratory

NASA selects UChicago undergraduates’ proposal to build a ‘nano-satellite’ Artist's illustration of a rectangular box floating in space with the curve of the earth visible below. It is emitting a red laser beam

NASA selects UChicago undergraduates’ proposal to build a ‘nano-satellite’

New UChicago course applies scientific reasoning to political decision making Students use diffraction gratings to look at the spectrums produced by various light sources.

New UChicago course applies scientific reasoning to political decision making

First results from BREAD experiment demonstrate a new approach to searching for dark matter A computer-drawn cutaway rendering of a large metal cylinder with a shiny Hershey's kiss shaped cone at one end

First results from BREAD experiment demonstrate a new approach to searching for dark matter

Howard Stein, acclaimed UChicago philosopher and historian of physics, 1929‒2024 Howard Stein

Howard Stein, acclaimed UChicago philosopher and historian of physics, 1929‒2024

For the first time, scientists take an atomic freeze-frame of liquid water X-ray pulses

For the first time, scientists take an atomic freeze-frame of liquid water

Research suggests how turbulence can be used to generate patterns Wisps of steam

Research suggests how turbulence can be used to generate patterns