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NMSU Physics Team Captures Footage of Vortex Within Microscopic Particles

A team of researchers from New Mexico State University’s Department of Physics have, for the first time, created a three-dimensional rendering of a microscopic nanoparticle’s structural transformation induced and controlled by an external electrical source.

Island University Professor to Take Part in Unlocking Secrets of the Universe

Dr. Barbara Szczerbinska, Professor of Physics at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, is part of the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Collaboration. DUNE scientists will be studying properties of neutrinos and seeking crucial information essential to our understanding of the universe.

Wiesner Team Images Tiny Quasicrystals as They Form

A Cornell multidisciplinary team devised a way to get a "time-lapse" look at the early formation of mesoporous silica nanoparticles, from six-sided crystals all the way to 12-sided quasicrystals.

Spotting the Spin of the Majorana Fermion Under the Microscope

Researchers at Princeton University have detected a unique quantum property of an elusive particle notable for behaving simultaneously like matter and antimatter. The particle, known as the Majorana fermion, is prized by researchers for its potential to open the doors to new quantum computing possibilities.

Scientists Log Newfound Understanding of Water’s Responses to Changing Temperatures

A team of chemists has uncovered new ways in which frozen water responds to changes in temperature to produce novel formations. Its findings have implications for climate research as well as other processes that involve ice formation—from food preservation to agriculture.

MSU Students Selected for Department of Energy Graduate Student Research Program

Two Michigan State University graduate students, Crispin Contreras-Martinez and Roy Ready, have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy for its 2017 Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program.

New Protein Study Broadens Knowledge of Molecular Basis for Disease

Determining how proteins function on a molecular level is crucial to understanding the underlying basis for disease. Now scientists at the University of Notre Dame are one step closer to unraveling the mystery of how intrinsically disordered proteins work.

Understanding Rare Earth Emulsions

Olvera de la Cruz and her team at Northwestern University are working to better understand why rare earths are strongly attracted to each other across long distances, making separation and extraction tediously difficult.

OSU Physicists Land $1.266 Million Grant from Department of Energy

Five high energy physicists from the Oklahoma State University Department of Physics have secured a major grant from the U.S. Department of Energy worth $1.266 million to conduct fundamental research in elementary particle physics

A Quark Like No Other

University of Iowa physicist Usha Mallik is at the forefront of the search for a missing particle that could prove whether the Higgs boson—believed to give mass to all matter—exists.

Breakthrough Could Launch Organic Electronics Beyond Cellphone Screens

A discovery by an international team of researchers from Princeton University, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Humboldt University in Berlin points the way to more widespread use of an advanced technology generally known as organic electronics.

My Summer Learning about High-performance Computing from Argonne National Laboratory

In the computational science community, there is a need to train engineers and scientists on how to effectively use current and future high-performance computing (HPC) systems. A couple of years ago, a training program was established by the federal government that would be able to address this deficiency. This program, known as the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC), contains over 100 hours of lectures and hands on training in the span of two weeks.