University of Washington professor of physics David Hertzog and UW research professor emeritus Peter Kammel are part of an international team that won ...

From a mountaintop in Arizona, an army of robotic eyes has spent the last five years staring into the universe’s deep past.

Unification of all natural forces in a single theory of everything has been the dream of physicists for many years now. While ...

A physics classroom in Mexico is getting a lot more attention than usual and for a good reason. Oliver Castro Jiménez, a ...

A tiny silica bead, just 100 nanometers across, sits suspended in a vacuum and vibrates under the grip of laser light. Those ...

In about one out of every 1,000 pregnancies, the neural tube, a key nervous system structure, fails to close properly.

How does the neural tube close? A new study uses physics-based modeling to reveal the actin "purse-string" mechanism and cellular coordination that prevents spina bifida.

Gross awarded $3 million “for a lifetime of groundbreaking contributions to theoretical physics, from the strong force to ...

Recent findings from research we have been carrying out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern in Geneva suggest that we ...

A decade-long effort to measure one of physics’ most fundamental constants culminates in a moment of uncertainty and revelation.