Researchers just witnessed a superconductor behavior that defies our current understanding of physics. At a certain electron density, quantum fluctuations—the phenomena that make superconductors stop ...

In 1957 a group of the titans of physics gathered in a lecture hall at Princeton University to be addressed by a diminutive Chinese American woman. As she told the crowd about her recent experiment ...

Wu was awarded the prestigious Wolf Prize for Physics after being denied a Nobel Prize that her male colleagues received. Wu also advocated for gender equality, refusing to adopt her husband's last ...

Chien-Shiung Wu's trailblazing but largely forgotten achievement features in a recent profile of the influential physicist Pioneering female Chinese-American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu, who worked with ...

This Women’s History Month, we’re highlighting stories of women whose contributions have often been overlooked. Tonight, we look at the career of Chien-Shiung Wu, a 20th-century physicist who made ...