Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.

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Students and faculty of UC Santa Barbara’s physics department gathered in Corwin Pavilion for the department’s annual Nobel Prize-focused colloquium on Oct. 14. This year’s event was particularly spec ...

He led a team of scientists who helped confirm that a Big Bang was the source of the universe. The discovery earned him a ...

Advances in microwave photonics and optical communications unveiled at OFC 2025 highlight the integration driving 6G, AI ...

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A team from the Faculty of Physics and the Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies at the University of Warsaw has developed a new type of all-optical ...

The processor uses electromagnetic waves instead of digital logic, combining signal analysis and data processing within a single low-power chip architecture. The Cornell microwave brain on a chip ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum ...