Gen Z and AI use in STEM October 24 2025 Above: Yao-Yuan Mao Teaching Fellow Yao-Yuan Mao will develop new approaches to how students use artificial intelligence in class. “The increasing capability and availability of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools have brought new challenges in our classrooms, especially for computing courses,” says astrophysicist Yao-Yuan Mao. […]
Read MoreDetecting the elusive neutrino in Antarctica October 8, 2025 Above: IceCube Lab, 2017 The U hosts the semi-annual IceCube Neutrino Collaboration “It’s all about the upgrade,” said Vivian O’Dell, Upgrade Project Director at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica. O’Dell was one of the featured speakers in the opening salvo of the IceCube Neutrino Collaboration’s […]
Read MoreMysterious gamma-ray explosion unlike any discovered before September 11, 2025 Above: The orange dot at the center is the powerful explosion that repeated several times over the course of a day. Credit: ESO/A. Levan, A. Martin-Carrillo et al. No known scenario can explain the source of a recent gamma-ray burst, which originated outside our galaxy and […]
Read MoreA physicist tackles machine learning black box August 13, 2025 From self-driving cars to facial recognition, modern life is growing more dependent on machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that learns from datasets without explicit programming. Despite its omnipresence in society, we’re just beginning to understand the mechanisms driving the technology. In a […]
Read MoreThe Violent Events of Deep Space August 4, 2025 Above: John Matthews explains how a multiple telescope arrays are placed in hopes of capturing cosmic rays as they enter Earth’s atmosphere. Credit: Mike Anderson, KSL TV Scientists at the University of Utah, along with others around the world, are taking a close look at deep […]
Read MorePhysics Pioneer Pierre Sokolsky awarded the 2025 Yodh Prize July 23, 2025 Above: Pierre Sokolsky To many, the (literally) rarefied air of the field of ultra high energy cosmic ray physics can prove elusive. And yet, these particles from outer space that travel across the universe at nearly the speed of light are in fact […]
Read MoreAstronomers celebrate images decades in the making July 9, 2025 Above: On June 23 the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located in Cerro Pachón, Chile, presented its inaugural data release of images that will drive a new generation of astrophysics research. It features first-of-its-kind technology, and the largest digital camera ever manufactured. The observatory’s 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey […]
Read MoreHints that Dark Energy May EVOLVE Above: Credit: DESI March 24, 2025 The fate of the universe hinges on the balance between matter and dark energy: the fundamental ingredient that drives its accelerating expansion. New results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration use the largest 3D map of our universe ever made to […]
Read MoreMost powerful gamma ray observatory gets green light March 12, 2025 At the start of the year, the European Commission established the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), furthering its mission to become the world’s largest and most powerful observatory for gamma-ray astronomy. The creation of the CTAO-ERIC will […]
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