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Dark Energy Survey scientists release new analysis of how the universe expands

The latest results combined weak lensing and galaxy clustering and incorporated four dark energy probes from a single experiment for the first time. This story is amended from one published by Fermilab, which includes information …

Velocity gradients key to explaining large-scale magnetic field structure

All celestial bodies — planets, suns, even entire galaxies — produce magnetic fields, affecting such cosmic processes as the solar wind, high-energy particle transport, and galaxy formation. Small-scale magnetic fields are generally turbulent and chaotic, …

Tiancheng Song earns DOE Early Career award

Professor Tiancheng Song has been selected for an Early Career Research Program (ECRP) award by the U.S. Department of Energy. Established in 2010, this prestigious program aims to support outstanding scientists early in their careers …

Highlight: physics major Val Díaz Moreno’s summer as an Open Quantum Initiative Fellow at Argonne

Mark Saffman wins Bell Prize

This post is derived from content originally published by the University of Toronto Congrats to Mark Saffman, the Johannes Rydberg Professor of Physics and director of the Wisconsin Quantum Institute, on earning the ninth Biennial …

Francis Halzen wins 2026 APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research

Game on! New course explores the physics of sports

By Francesca Smith, physics communications intern Students who signed up for a course about the physics of sports probably did not expect to take a field trip to the Kohler Art Library at the beginning …

Welcome, Prof. Joshua Foster!

Joshua Foster’s long-standing interest in computational tools is, he believes, what led him to research a range of theoretical physics, including dark matter, gravitational waves, and new physics. “What got me interested in studying theoretical …

2025 Nobel Prize Laureate John Martinis’s Connections to UW–Madison

UW–Madison builds on partnerships at Chicago Quantum Summit

Kyle Cranmer awarded inaugural prize for AI in science

Mark Saffman awarded 2026 APS Ramsey Prize

Mark Saffman, the Johannes Rydberg Professor of Physics and director of the Wisconsin Quantum Institute, won the American Physical Society’s 2026 Norman F. Ramsey Prize in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, and in Precision Tests …

Q-NEXT quantum center renewed for five years

Ho Fung Tsoi PhD’24 wins CMS thesis award

Welcome, Prof. Mariel Pettee!

Interdisciplinary physicist Mariel Pettee uses techniques grounded in machine learning to study a range of topics that span high energy physics and astrophysics, with an ultimate goal of developing a better understanding of the fundamental …

Welcome, Prof. Josiah Sinclair!

When he was younger, UW–Madison assistant professor of physics Josiah Sinclair wanted to be a scientist-inventor when he grew up. In high school, he would ask questions in biology and chemistry classes that his teachers …

Nuclear physicist Paul Quin has passed away

Emerit professor of physics Paul Quin passed away on October 9, 2025. He was 84. Born in Brooklyn, NY in 1941, Quin received his doctorate in physics from the University of Notre Dame, where his …

“Rival” neutrino experiments NOvA and T2K publish first joint analysis

The combined results add to physicists’ understanding and validate the impressive collaborative effort between two competing — yet complementary — experiments. This story was published by Fermilab When the universe began, physicists expect there should …

UW fostering closer research ties with federal defense, cybersecurity agencies

Exploring Decades of Semiconductor Collaboration between Argonne National Lab & UW–Madison