On Sept. 14, 2015, University of Chicago scientists were part of the international team to make the first direct detection of ripples in the fabric of space-time from the collision of two black holes ...

Please join the WAVES Team Friday, April 8 at 3 p.m. Lydon 110 for our latest 50/50 Lecture. Our invited speaker is Nicola H. Perry, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at University of ...

Birch Aquarium at Scripps Summer Lecture Explores the Power of Ocean Waves Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UC San Diego on Monday, Aug. 11, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at 2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla.

In February 2016, scientists announced the first ever detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, launching a new era of gravitational wave astronomy and unprecedented tests of ...

The linear theory for stationary Rossby waves excited by flow over long ridges is reviewed. The traditional "textbook" model, in which there is no disturbance of the potential temperature surfaces or ...

Barry Barish, a key scientific leader behind the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), will deliver a free public lecture on the “The Detection of Gravitational Waves from Binary ...

On a recent Wednesday night the crowd spilled out the door at San Francisco’s Axis Café, where the draw wasn't a hot band or a talented bartender, but a lecture. On physics. Toby Garfield, an ...

The final lecture of the season is offered by William Cullina, an award-winning author and Executive Director of Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. Most folks are familiar with the concept of the mixed ...