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In a recent study, a team of physicists at CU Boulder demonstrated the ability to align a laser-ionized plasma source with the electron beam in an ultra-precise and automated way, paving the way for future developments in making plasma wakefield accelerators a reality.
Winter jackets may seem simple, but sophisticated engineering allows them to keep body heat locked in while staying breathable enough to let out sweat. Read from CU experts Longji Cui, assistant professor in mechanical engineering, and Wan Xiong, physics graduate student, on The Conversation.
Failing Calculus 1 during her first semester wasn’t exactly how Hero Trent hoped to start her college career at CU Boulder. But she faced the challenge head on, and now she’s seeing the results of her hard work and determination.
Physicists from NIST, including CU Boulder physics graduate students and CU PREP researchers, used laser-based techniques to employ a “helper” calcium atom and control a calcium hydride molecule nearly perfectly. Their results were recently published in Physical Review Letters.
This week, UNESCO named Jun Ye, professor adjoint of physics and fellow of JILA and NIST, to its Quantum 100 list—a catalogue of some of the top leaders around the world in the rapidly growing field of quantum science.
Professor Gang Cao has been awarded a seed grant from the Research & Innovation Office for his project titled "Chiral Orbital Currents: Engineering a New Platform for Quantum Transport and Orbitronics."
Professor Ivan Smlayukh and his research group have developed a new material that is completely transparent but so good at blocking heat that you can use it to hold a flame in the palm of your hand. Their results were recently published in Science.
Physics senior Ruijian Wang has been awarded the Fall 2025 Stephen Halley White Undergraduate Research Award from the Department of Physics for his outstanding research in quantum optics and integrated photonics. The award is
Hundreds of educators, students, scientists, policymakers, industry partners and community leaders gathered in November for STEM Together 2025: The STEM Education Action Symposium. Led by the Center for STEM Learning (CSL), the event was designed to advance collective action in STEM education and workforce development within Colorado’s strong innovative ecosystem.
NASA has announced that instruments designed and built by researchers at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at CU Boulder have been selected for development for the Artemis IV mission, due to launch in 2028. Xu Wang, senior researcher at LASP at lecturer of physics, serves as principal investigator of the proposal, dubbed DUSTER (Dust and plaSma environmenT survEyoR).