The Dartmouth BARREL team successfully launched its first payload in northern Sweden on August 10th. To follow the BARREL team's progress over the next several days visit their blog: http://barrelscience.blogspot.com/...

Dartmouth physicist Robyn Millan and colleagues have engaged in a study of potentially destructive high-energy electrons streaking into Earth’s atmosphere for the first time employing two distinctly different and distant vantage points high above the Earth. Their findings appeared in the July 9 issue of the journal Nature....

Professor Bill Doyle’s memory was honored this June with the dedication of the William T. Doyle Plasma Physics Lab in room 112 Wilder. Kristina Lynch announced the dedication during the Alumni Reception on June 19....

Dartmouth has been selected as the first U.S. site to hold The Relativistic Quantum Information – North 2015 Workshop, July 5-8, 2015. Under the auspices of the International Society for Relativistic Quantum Information, this is the sixth in the series of such meetings taking place in the Northern Hemisphere. This workshop series aims to bring together researchers working across quantum information science, quantum field theory in curved spacetime, and quantum gravity.

Sylvester James Gates Jr., an internationally recognized theoretical physicist and a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, will be Dartmouth’s third Roth Distinguished Scholar. He’ll be in residence for the 2015-16 academic year.

Prof. Ryan Hickox, Thomas Whalen' 14, and their colleagues have now proven that a supermassive black hole exists in a place where it isn’t supposed to be. In doing so they have opened a new door to understanding what things were like as the universe evolved and grew in the depths of time.