Rep. Mark Takano, D-Riverside, visited UC Riverside on August 6 to learn about the new Experimental Cosmology Center in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. The center, spearheaded by Nobel laureate Barry Barish, a distinguished professor of physics and astronomy...

A University of California, Riverside, study has expanded our knowledge of the structure of the universe and supports the existence of a new physical effect, such as a particle that has never been observed before.

An international team led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside, has made a significant breakthrough in how to enable and exploit ultra-fast spin behavior in ferromagnets. The research, published in Physical Review Letters and highlighted as an editors’...

Alumna Christina Manzano wore a different hat three weeks ago at UC Riverside when she attended the weeklong Summer Physics Academy organized by the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Manzano, a former graduate student of Gabriela Canalizo, a professor of...

Quantum computing, which uses the laws of quantum mechanics, can solve pressing problems in a broad range of fields, from medicine to machine learning, that are too complex for classical computers. Quantum simulators are devices made of interacting quantum units...

Crater 2, located approximately 380,000 light years from Earth, is one of the largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. Extremely cold and with slow-moving stars, Crater 2 has low surface brightness. How this galaxy originated remains unclear.

Ken Barish has been elected chair of the UC Riverside Academic Senate. His two-year term begins on Sept. 1. Barish succeeds Sang Hee-Lee, who has been chair the past two years. In the role of chair, Barish will preside over...

Recently, a team of UC Riverside physicists led an experimental campaign at UC Davis, where they worked on a cyclotron, an apparatus that accelerates charged particles. The team, led by Barak Schmookler, an assistant project scientist in the lab of...