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New Details Revealed in the “Green Monster”

12/11/2024

The BTST, a key piece of the Upgraded CMS Detector, arrives at CERN

12/4/2024

The quantum chase

12/2/2024

Purdue honors researchers with Seed for Success Acorn Awards

11/26/2024

Abigail Polin joins the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue University

11/26/2024

Merel van ‘t Hoff joins the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue University

11/26/2024

Tracing Huge, Distant Structures in the Universe

11/13/2024

Historic breakthrough in quantum mechanics and gravity research

11/11/2024

Purdue quantum photonics center established with $13.9 million in DOE funding

11/11/2024

Big Ten Network Purdue Impact Research: Danny Milisavljevic

11/11/2024

Purdue Science welcomes new physics faculty Claudio Chamon

11/7/2024

American Physical Society names three Purdue University faculty 2024 fellows

11/7/2024

Molecular Makeover: Scientists Uncover a Way to Break and Rebuild Molecules with Light

10/21/2024

Virtual reality meets academia: How Collab XR is taking students to space and beyond

10/11/2024

Csathy named American Physical Society Fellow

10/4/2024

Purdue researchers create orientation-independent magnetic field-sensing nanotube spin qubits

10/2/2024

Purdue Alumna Qi Qian named in MIT TR Innovators under 35

9/30/2024

Prestigious Astronaut Scholarships awarded to three Purdue students

9/30/2024

Hidden signals of new physics in events with a high energy lepton pair

9/24/2024

Tracking Particle Motion in Synthetic Quantum Materials

9/19/2024

Researchers Create 2D Materials with Pentagons as Building Blocks

9/19/2024

Quantum feat: physicists observe entangled quarks for first time

9/19/2024

CERN’s CMS detector observes quantum entanglement at highest energy ever

9/18/2024

Catch a partial lunar eclipse during September's supermoon

9/18/2024

Hot, Young Supernova Remnant! JWST Observations of Cas A Challenge Scientists

9/3/2024

Can Space and Time Exist as Two Shapes at Once? Mind-Bending Experiments Aim to Find Out

8/21/2024

These Levitating Nanodiamonds Are the World’s Smallest Disco Balls

8/20/2024

Purdue physicists throw world’s smallest disco party

8/13/2024

Cracking binary mysteries: astrophysicists unify codes

7/29/2024

PhysAstro Outreach completes a vibrant year of engagement

7/24/2024

Stunning images of cosmic dance between galaxies captured by Webb Telescope

7/16/2024

Watch These Supernovas Explode Across Time

7/15/2024

Purdue researchers trap atoms, forcing them to serve as photonic transistors

7/11/2024

CNN's The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper: Are We Alone In The Universe?

6/21/2024

The future of teaching and learning has arrived

6/21/2024

Commission on Semiconductors (C8) Early Career Scientist Prize 2023 Winners

6/7/2024

New quantum materials promise unimagined innovations in computing, memory

6/7/2024

20 Top Universities For Quantum Computing Research

5/28/2024

2024 NFS Graduate Research Fellowship Program announces awardees and honorable mentions

5/16/2024

Distinguished Professor Chris Greene selected as 2024 Morrill Award winner

5/10/2024

Purdue joins Chicago Quantum Exchange, tapping into the region’s efforts to advance U.S. leadership in quantum technologies

5/10/2024

A more perfect status quo

5/9/2024

2023-24 Physics and Astronomy Awards for faculty, staff and students

5/8/2024

Discover Purdue’s latest and greatest in space sciences

5/6/2024

Jing Liu awarded NSF and NIH grants to study mechanics in human cells

5/2/2024

Professor Qi Zhou honored with University Faculty Scholar award

4/12/2024

Finding the Catalyst for a More Sustainable Future

4/10/2024

Special report: Solar eclipse path of totality

4/9/2024

Purdue University campus pauses to soak up 2024 solar eclipse, experiencing near totality

4/9/2024

Trustees approve faculty promotions

4/5/2024

Purdue students illuminate high schoolers on eclipse

4/3/2024

Physicists Discover a Quantum State With a New Type of Emergent Particles: Six-Flux Composite Fermions

4/2/2024

United Kingdom Invests in DOE’s Electron-Ion Collider Project to Understand Matter at the Smallest Scale

3/29/2024

Paul Corkum: Attosecond Science

3/27/2024

Jupiter’s icy moon may be the next place humans find life, but first, they need to understand the structure of the moon

3/25/2024

Why Magnets are Quantum Materials

3/14/2024

Purdue researchers see possible link with dog, human cancer treatments

3/11/2024

What are the Webb and Hubble telescopes looking at right now? Find out with these new NASA tools

3/11/2024

Purdue Physicists share in $200M Department of Energy Award to upgrade CERN’s CMS detector 

3/8/2024

A New Frontier in Cancer Treatment: Understanding Chemoresistance

3/4/2024

'Anybody's bucket list': April's total solar eclipse selling out hotels in central Indiana

2/29/2024

Boilermakers given rare opportunity to send two crews on back-to-back Mars Desert Research Station missions

2/29/2024

Why do leap years have 366 days?

2/29/2024

Purdue College of Science team’s quantum optics discovery featured in Nature Physics

2/28/2024

What happens during a total solar eclipse? | Purdue astronomer Danny Milisavljevic

2/28/2024

2024 Faculty and Staff Awards

2/26/2024

New Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Tiancong Zhu

2/26/2024

Physicists discover a quantum state with a new type of emergent particles: Six-flux composite fermions

2/26/2024

Purdue physicists discover a quantum state with a new type of emergent particles: six-flux composite fermions

2/19/2024

Why does a leap year have 366 days?

2/19/2024

Purdue researchers edge closer to delivering personalized medicine to cancer patients

2/8/2024

New Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Valentin Walther

1/23/2024

Quantum Research Sciences receives U.S. Air Force’s first Quantum Computing Phase III contract

1/19/2024

Mercury traced to particular cell types in brains of mammals

1/16/2024

Seeking supernovas

1/16/2024

Stellar forensics: Clearest ever look at Cassiopeia A sheds light into the heart of an exploding star

1/9/2024
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