Physics & Astronomy

As part of its ongoing efforts to inspire the potential scientists of tomorrow, UNM’s Department of Physics & Astronomy is once again hosting its Lecture Demonstration Show on Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. inside the Regener Hall Auditorium on main campus.

Join UNM’s chapter of Sigma Xi for the Science and Society Distinguished Public Talk on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 5:30 p.m. in the UNM Conference Center Auditorium as they present ‘What Happened to the Mammoths? Exploring the Cause of North America’s Most Recent Mass Extinction.’

Near Geneva, Switzerland, an experimental facility, 17-miles in diameter, shoots protons at almost the speed of light to see what happens when they crash into one another. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is located at CERN, the European Organization for...

Quantum information science is going to change the world. Being able to manipulate and control individual atoms and other microscopic systems to do jobs in communications, sensing and computation will have an impact on nearly every aspect of our daily ...

It’s a simple idea that many say will revolutionize the way research is done at The University of New Mexico: Build a facility to house classrooms, offices and laboratory space for scientists from across campus, not just from a single department. The...

When most people think about lasers, they usually imagine them generating heat and even setting something on fire. But, for a group of scientists in The University of New Mexico’s Department of Physics & Astronomy, lasers are actually being used to reach temperatures colder than the arctic circle.

A chemistry professor at The University of New Mexico is building synthetic molecules that would revolutionize data storage capacity. Those molecules, along with a variety of other applications, could be used to develop three dimensional holographic...

The University of New Mexico has named Patricia Henning as Interim Associate Vice President for Research announced Vice President for Research Gabriel López. Henning is currently a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. The appointment is...

When University of New Mexico Physics & Astronomy Professor Greg Taylor turned on the first Long Wavelength Array (LWA1) station in 2011, he wasn’t exactly sure what they were going to find. Fast forward five years, and now, Taylor and recent Ph.D. graduate Ken Obenberger have detected and studied a strange, meteoric phenomenon no one else had ever seen.

A team of researchers led by scientists at The University of New Mexico have been awarded a $7.5 million grant to expand on existing laser projects already underway at the University.