Robert D. Maurer, alumnus of the Department of Physics, was an industrial physicist noted for his leadership in the invention of optical fiber. He passed away at the age of 101 on Sept. 9, 2025, in ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important ...

Amanda Baugh, a professor of religious studies at Cal State, Northridge, will talk about minority communities who embody the ethic of living lightly on the earth, based in love and respect for God's ...

While developing LiDAR technology, scientists unexpectedly discovered how to generate multiple laser colors from a single ...

Researchers at Columbia have created a chip that turns a single laser into a “frequency comb,” producing dozens of powerful ...

Breakthrough from Princeton team reveals exotic quantum state that coherently blends many-body correlation and quantum ...

At just 51 years old, D’Angelo joined the ranks of many Black luminaries who shined brightly but not long. For much of ...

The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has brought this week’s Nobel ...

The paper’s co-authors, Alexander Gaeta (left) and Michal Lipson, pictured in the Gaeta lab at Columbia University. Gaeta is ...

Researchers have developed a compact light source that generates dozens of high-power wavelengths, paving the way for a new ...

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