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Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University Physics alumna Dr. Dekrayat Almaalol receives 2024 Leona Woods Lectureship Award from Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University hosts the total eclipse events.
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Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University Department of Physics hosts eclipse planetarium shows and more.
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Dr. Lavrentovich, professor of Physics at Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University, and collaborators publish an article in Science.
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Did you know we have a planetarium? Well, we do. Smith Hall at Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University is home to this versatile room that can be used for classes, events and can even replicate an easier-to-see version of the night sky.
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The Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University Department of Physics is proud to welcome our newest faculty member, Dr. Zhangbu Xu.
Dr. Michael Strickland's group will participate in a new Topical Theory Collaboration funded by DOE’s Office of Nuclear Physics to explore the behavior of heavy flavor particles. The collaboration will receive $2.5 Million from the DOE Office of Science, Office of Nuclear…
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Neutron stars are some of the densest objects in the universe, and as such, the conditions at the cores of these extreme objects are impossible to reproduce on Earth. However, we can use data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo…
Up until approximately 10^(-5) seconds after the Big Bang, the Universe was is a primordial state of matter called a quark-gluon plasma (QGP). This is due to the fact that the early Universe was extremely hot and in such a hot environment normal matter, e.g., atoms, atomic…
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently awarded a $1.86 million grant to Thorsten-Lars Schmidt, Ph.D., to develop molecular tools that help researchers to understand membrane proteins. …