High Energy Physics and Cosmology News

How to spot a wormhole (if they exist)
10/23/19

In a theoretical study, physicists propose that perturbations in the orbit of stars near supermassive black holes could be used to detect wormholes.

Professor Stojkovic discusses possible Wormhole in Scientific American
10/15/19
UB's professor Dejan Stojkovic and collaborator Professor De-Chang Dai of Yangzhou University in China discuss the possibility of a transversable wormhole as a hidden passage in Scientific American. Could we spy a traversable wormhole in the Milky Way’s heart?
Particle accelerator scientists meet in Buffalo
7/16/19

UB’s physics department is hosting a conference for Large Hadron Collider researchers this week.

Professor Williams receives NSF CAREER award
7/13/17
Ciaran Williams, Assistant Professor of Physics, has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award to continue his theoretical work for the CERN Large Hadron Collider. See the coverage in UBNow for more information.
Anne Fortman Wins 2017 Goldwater Scholarship
6/12/17
Anne Fortman received an 2017 Goldwater Scholarship. Congratulations, Anne! 
Faculty Featured in Recent Issue of "New Scientist"
6/12/17
Professors William H. Kinney and Dejan Stojkovic discuss the implications of the discovery of gravitational waves in a recent issue of New Scientist.