The Large Hadron Collider team, which includes physicists from the University of Maryland who made key contributions to the study, analyzed data collected by the LHCb detector during the first run of the LHC, finds hints of leptons acting out against time-tested predictions. Read More

Luis Orozco and researchers have developed a new technique using an optical nanofiber to measure atomic-cloud temperature. Their article was published in Physical Review A as an Editor's suggestion. Read More

Daniel Lathrop talks to BBC about his experiments to model the Earth's magnetic field (begins at 8:18).

Joint Quantum Institute and Chad Orzel (Ph.D. ’99, Chemical Physics) Host Science Workshop for Science Fiction Writers at UMD

Professor Wolfgang Losert has been named interim associate dean for faculty affairs and graduate education in CMNS effective August 15, 2015. Wolfgang will assume the role previously held by Paul Smith, who served the college for over five years in this role.