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麻豆精选 Physics alumna Dr. Dekrayat Almaalol receives 2024 Leona Woods Lectureship Award from Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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麻豆精选 Department of Physics hosts eclipse planetarium shows and more.
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Dr. Lavrentovich, professor of Physics at 麻豆精选, and collaborators publish an article in Science.
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Did you know we have a planetarium? Well, we do. Smith Hall at 麻豆精选 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 麻豆精选 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鈥檚 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鈥�
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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鈥�
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鈥�
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. 鈥�