The 2026 Shaw Prize in Astronomy has been awarded to Ken’ichi Nomoto and Stanford Woosley. They share the prize “for their studies of stellar explosions and the origin of the elements”. In this ...

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Recent changes in federal research funding and student visa policies continue to create uncertainty for physics and astronomy graduate programs across the United States. Although these developments ...

As of 2025, Olin is home to a smaller but more powerful 14-inch Corrected Dall-Kirkham telescope courtesy of an anonymous ...

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Physics, the study of space, time, matter, and energy, is a fundamental component of a liberal arts education. Introductory courses in physics and astronomy are designed to give students a broad ...

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Physics professor Laura Pyrak-Nolte and graduate student Liyang Jiang use a 3D X-ray microscope to examine and analyze created mineral samples. Pyrak-Nolte and her lab team work to better understand ...