LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, is the most sensitive and complex gravitational experiment ever created. When researchers look at the information LIGO receives...
CIERA postdoctoral fellow Laura Sampson is among five female scientists honored with the 2016 For Women in Science Fellowship from L’Oréal USA. The program...
On the morning of February 11th 2016, people around the world congregated in conference rooms to watch a press conference that would change the...
The new window onto the universe just opened a little bit wider. For the second time in history, an international team of scientists and...
In a new study, CIERA astrophysics show their theoretical predictions last year were correct: The historic merger of two massive black holes detected Sept....
Yuri Milner, a Russian entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and physicist, is giving $3 million as a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics to honor the...
Carl Rodriguez, a Ph.D. candidate in Physics and Astronomy, was chosen to present his talk, “Listening to Einstein’s Final Symphony,” as part of this...
More than 80 people from the Northwestern and Evanston area communities came to the Firehouse Grill March 23 to talk about the dawn of...
Chicago Tonight, a weeknight television news magazine on WTTW Channel 11 hosted by Phil Ponce, featured Vicky Kalogera and Shane Larson on February 15th....
On February 11, 2016 the National Science Foundation and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) announced that their scientists successfully, for the first time, directly...
On November 20th, a NASA program called Physics of the Cosmos co-sponsored its first Google Hangout in partnership with the “Future in Space” hangout series produced...
Each year, staff members from Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences organize a series of faculty talks given especially for staff. This allows...
