DURHAM, N.C. — Our cosmic neighborhood is revealing an uncomfortable and unexplainable truth: the universe seems to be ...

Pictures show how the stars look during a period known as the cosmic noon - the middle ages of the universe when the most ...

From quantum science to galactic discoveries, our Department of Physics is at the forefront of breakthroughs in the field. We ...

Researchers at Durham University have successfully demonstrated ... sensing, and fundamental physics. The paper is published in the journal Nature. In a world-first, scientists used precisely ...

We discovered that surface attached bacteria can sense chemical gradients and use this information to navigate to where nutrients are more abundant (Oliveira, Foster, Durham, PNAS, 2016). I recently ...

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Condensed Matter Physics to work with Professor ... View details Postdoctoral Research Associate in Condensed Matter ...

The project, called OpenUniverse, relied on the now-retired Theta supercomputer at the DOE’s (Department of Energy’s) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The supercomputer accomplished a process ...

Our ‘Spotlight on’ series highlights how our researchers are leading their field and transforming lives. Professor Simon Cornish works at the forefront of quantum physics, using cutting-edge ...

The Durham team was led by physicists David Lagattuta ... that now we are able to help and work with people, in stellar physics for example, to detect individual stars." Dragon Arc is located ...