physics

Rene Ong is looking for an invisible particle as old as time. If he can find even the traces it leaves behind, we would be one step closer to understanding how the universe really works.

California Jobs First funding will support regional coordination, workforce development and growth of Southern California’s quantum technology ecosystem.

In a once-in-a-century event, an impact left a crater the size of two football fields and churned the surface for over 3 km in every direction.

UCLA's Alvine Kamaha and her colleagues on the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment observed an event that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPs.

Neil Garg and Anshul Kogar will take part in ‘Lectures on Tap,’ events that spark discussion and foster community.

Treu’s Faculty Research Lecture takes place April 24.

The gift will empower the university to launch new research and initiatives at the intersection of fusion science and engineering.

Richard L. Hasen, Marilyn Raphael, Alexander Spokoyny and Stuart Brown have been recognized for their contributions to furthering scientific research in service to society.

Faculty Bulletin Board is a biweekly a snapshot of the many ways Bruin scholars and researchers are advancing knowledge, shaping their fields and powering progress on campus and around the world.

David Clewett, Pradip Gatkine and Juliana Londoño-Vélez are among 126 scholars across the United States and Canada selected for the prestigious award.

The strategic partnership brings together academia and industry leadership to advance the governor’s Quantum California initiative.

The volunteer-led event drew more than 12,000 visitors in its 17th year.

Doctoral student Anastasia Pipi is exploring ‘inner space’ to blaze new, world-changing scientific trails.

The presidential administration’s approach would choke American science, and researchers — especially the emerging generation — would not survive the cuts.

Solar physicist Brandon Lazard, who will graduate in June with a master’s in space physics, shares his outlook on life and science.

Insurgent content platforms like Substack are rewriting the rules of publishing. Here are some Bruin newsletters you should be reading now.

The UCLA faculty members are among 471 newly elected AAAS fellows recognized for their significant contributions to the advancement of science.

Giant exoplanets with elliptical orbits and smaller planets with nearly circular orbits formed along different pathways.

Six faculty members have been named recipients of the award, which is among the most competitive and prestigious available to early-career researchers.

UCLA physicists have developed a new film that requires much less of the rare thorium-229 and is significantly less radioactive.

In practice and in scholarship, magic continues to intrigue and inspire students, faculty and staff throughout UCLA. Here are a few quick glimpses behind the glamour.

The researchers have published studies that are cited most often by other scholars in their fields.

While the result is different from what they hoped, it’s also exactly what they thought it should be.

The findings could unlock the most accurate clock ever and allow advances like deep space navigation, communication.

Zvi Bern, a theoretical physicist, and Leonard Kleinrock, one of the early pioneers of the internet, were recognized for their distinguished original research.