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How to Spawn an “Exceptional Ring”

MIT researchers create exotic states that could lead to new kinds of sensors and optical devices.

NMSU Physics Department Granted $465,000 for Nuclear and Particle Physics Research

A project within the New Mexico State University Department of Physics has been awarded $465,000, bringing its total funding to more than $10,000,000 and allowing the department to remain at the forefront of experimental nuclear and particle physics.

Rice Physicists Find Surprising ‘Liquid-Like’ Particle Interactions in Large Hadron Collider

Discovery by the Rice researchers could lead to new insights into Quark-Gluon-Plasma, a state of matter that was last common in the universe a millionth of a second after the Big Bang.

Smarter Window Materials Can Control Light and Energy

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin are one step closer to delivering smart windows with a new level of energy efficiency, engineering materials that allow windows to reveal light without transferring heat and, conversely, to block light while allowing heat transmission, as described in two new research papers.

How to Look for a Few Good Catalysts

New research at MIT shows non-wetting surfaces promote chemical reaction rates.

New Insight on How Crystals Form May Advance Materials, Health, and Basic Science Research

An international group of researchers, including scientists from Virginia Tech and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, have shown how nature uses a variety of pathways to grow crystals that go beyond the classical, one-atom-at-a-time route.

Nonmagnetic Duo Form Unique Magnet

Scientists at Rice University did so and discovered what is a first of its kind: an itinerant antiferromagnetic metal — TiAu — made from nonmagnetic constituent elements.

Better Together: Graphene-Nanotube Hybrid Switches

Scientists at Michigan Tech have figured out to fuse graphene sheets with boron nitride nanotubes, creating a workable digital switch.

New Molecular Butterflies Help Advance Energy Research

Scientists at Florida State University have designed and produced new molecules resembling butterflies that have a wide range of potential applications, from molecular sensors to light-controlling devices.

Plant Defense Hormones Help Sculpt Root Microbiome

According to new research from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the defense hormone salicylic acid helps select which bacteria live both inside and on the surface of a plant’s roots, keeping some families out and actively recruiting others.

Columbia Engineers Develop New Approach to Modeling Amazon Seasonal Cycles

Columbia engineers have developed a new approach to modeling which will improve understanding of the impact of deforestation and climate change on the Amazon basin.

Trapped Light Orbits Within an Intriguing Material

Light becomes trapped as it orbits within tiny granules of a crystalline material that has increasingly intrigued physicists, a team led by University of California, San Diego, physics professor Michael Fogler has found.