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The Higgs Boson Reveals Its Love for the Top Quark New results from the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC reveal how strongly the Higgs boson interacts with the heaviest known elementary particle, the top quark, corroborating our understanding of the Higgs and setting constraints on new physics.

Homer A. Neal 1942-2018 Remembering University Professor of Physics Homer A. Neal, 1942-2018

U-M Society of Physics Students Talk STEM and More

LIGO and Virgo Make First Detection of Gravitational Waves Produced By Colliding Neutron Stars University of Michigan physicists contribute to both the gravitational-wave discovery and its optical follow-up

Kip S. Thorne, Winner of 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, Has U-M Physics Connections Professors of Physics Keith Riles (left) and Gregory Tarlé (right) at the Special Collections Library in Hatcher Graduate Library. Professor Kip Thorne is holding the original document where Galileo recorded his first observations of the moons of Jupiter with his new telescope. Photo credit: Pablo Alvarez (Outreach Librarian and Curator, Special Collections Library at UM)

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