Division of the Physical Sciences

Physicists reveal how motion can be generated by frustration Non-reciprocal phase transitions - demonstration with tiny desktop robots

Physicists reveal how motion can be generated by frustration

There might be many planets with water-rich atmospheres Artist illustration of the exoplanet WASP-121b

There might be many planets with water-rich atmospheres

UChicago physicist William Irvine selected for $2 million Brown Investigator Award Prof. William Irvine

UChicago physicist William Irvine selected for $2 million Brown Investigator Award

Ceramic chips inside meteorites hint at wild days of the early solar system artist illustration of bright sun surrounded by glowing disk of matter

Ceramic chips inside meteorites hint at wild days of the early solar system

New self-assembly method creates bioelectronics out of microscopic structures Heart pacing nature nano

New self-assembly method creates bioelectronics out of microscopic structures

Two $5 million gifts to support Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics David N. Schramm

Two $5 million gifts to support Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics

‘Everyone felt the urgency’: Labs around UChicago donate protective equipment to hospital Aerial photo of UChicago Medicine campus

‘Everyone felt the urgency’: Labs around UChicago donate protective equipment to hospital

Dust from a giant asteroid crash caused an ancient ice age Asteroid crash

Dust from a giant asteroid crash caused an ancient ice age

UChicago names building after pioneering physicist Albert Michelson Albert A. Michelson

UChicago names building after pioneering physicist Albert Michelson

Angela Olinto named dean of Physical Sciences Division Thumbnail

Angela Olinto named dean of Physical Sciences Division