Daniel Woodbury was awarded a prestigious DOE NNSA Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship, administered by Krell Institute, provides financial benefits and professional development opportunities to students pursuing a Ph.D. in fields of study that solve complex science and engineering problems critical to stewardship science.

Woodbury is a first year graduate research student working with Howard Milchberg on intense laser-matter interactions. He received his B.S., in 2015, from Brigham Young University.

Joint Quantum Institute’s Charles Clark describes Japanese balloon attack that almost interrupted building first atomic bombs.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the formation of a new initiative, The Public Face of Science. Over the next three years, with members drawn from among national leaders in communication, law, journalism, public affairs, and the physical, social and life sciences, The Public Face of Science initiative will examine public attitudes toward science and identify issues that require greater attention from scholars and practitioners alike.

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Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Md., has again produced a national finalist — actually, two of the 40 nationwide — for the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search competition that started Friday in Washington.

Arnold Mong and Josephine Yu, 17-year-old seniors in Blair’s math-science-computer science magnet program, are vying for the competition’s top honors with research projects that sound well beyond their years. Take Yu’s “Lattice and Continuum Models of Solitons and Vortices in Bilayer Graphene,” an investigation in theoretical physics.

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Elizabeth Beise helps Inverse fact-check the particle physics in official "Ghostbusters" trailer.