School of Arts and Sciences

Sina Ghaemmaghami has been recognized for "exemplifying the role" of teacher-scholar.

Alice Quillen, professor of astronomy, and collaborators have created a mathematical model of what might be happening at the center of the Milky Way.

The eerie ability to see our hand in the dark suggests that the brain combines information from different senses to create perceptions.

Vasilii Petrenko is one of 16 researchers being awarded a prestigious David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship totaling $875,000 over five years to spend on a research project of his or her choice.

The new finding could help explore a fundamental question of science – why is the universe made up almost exclusively of matter, when matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts in the Big Bang?

Daniel Scantlebury calls Madagascar "an ideal evolutionary laboratory" for studying species formation because it has long been isolated and geologically stable relative to other regions.

A surprisingly simple exercise measures the brain’s unconscious ability to filter out visual movement, and points to an unexpected link between IQ and motion filtering

Two hundred physics and optics researchers from 20 countries worldwide have come together at the University of Rochester this week for the Tenth Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics.

Such heightened sensory perception in autism may help explain why some people with the disorder are painfully sensitive to noise and bright lights.

A new study shows that individuals who deliberately shun another person are equally distressed by the experience.