The physics department graduate admissions committee is composed of about 25 faculty members. Each of the applications we receive is reviewed by 1-3 members of the committee. These reviews attempt to ...

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

I am sitting on a train between Boston and Washington, D.C. I just left the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) Annual Meeting. It was a week of stimulating science engagement and learning. As ...

Prof. Gregory Bentsen -- theory Quantum information scrambling, quantum many-body dynamics, quantum simulation & advantage. Prof. Ebubechukwu Ilo-Okeke -- theory Quantum information for cold atoms, ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

In a landmark series of calculations, physicists have proved that black holes can shed information, which seems impossible by definition. The work appears to resolve a paradox that Stephen Hawking ...

Black holes are gravitational monsters, squeezing gas and dust down to a microscopic point like great cosmic trash compactors. Modern physics dictates that, after being consumed, information about ...