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Get ready for the total solar eclipse on April 8
Fri, 08 Mar 2024
Mark your calendars for April 8, 2024, when the University of Rochester’s River Campus will be among the prime viewing spots for the next total solar eclipse.
Continue ReadingScientists create new ‘spark plug’ for fusion reactions
Mon, 05 Feb 2024
Techniques developed with the Laboratory for Laser Energetics’ OMEGA laser system hold promise for sparking fusion at larger scales.
Continue ReadingEdward Thorndike, physicist who found ‘beauty’ in b quarks, remembered
Wed, 31 Jan 2024
Thorndike made pathbreaking contributions to the study of matter.
Continue ReadingIs oxygen the cosmic key to alien technology?
Tue, 02 Jan 2024
Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank explores the links between atmospheric oxygen and detecting extraterrestrial technology on distant planets.
Continue ReadingNew strategy reveals ‘full chemical complexity’ of quantum decoherence
Mon, 18 Dec 2023
The findings can be used to design molecules with custom quantum coherence properties, laying the chemical foundation for emerging quantum technologies.
Continue ReadingRochester research with ‘ghostly’ neutrinos among Physics World’s breakthroughs of the year
Thu, 07 Dec 2023
Led by researchers from the University of Rochester, scientists from the international collaboration MINERvA have, for the first time, used a beam of hard-to-detect neutrinos to investigate the structure of protons.
Continue ReadingStraining memory leads to new computing possibilities
Thu, 30 Nov 2023
“We’ve combined the idea of a memristor and a phase-change device in a way that can go beyond the limitations of either device,” says Stephen Wu, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and of physics.
Continue ReadingHow do living things use meaningful information to survive?
Tue, 28 Nov 2023
A team from the Department of Physics and Astronomy has applied the theory of semantic information to a realistic model capturing attributes of living systems—and found the critical point where information matters for survival.
Continue ReadingQubit by qubit: Optimizing silicon for quantum computing
Fri, 17 Nov 2023
A team of researchers including John Nichol, an associate professor of physics, has won a grant from the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research to address challenges posed by silicon spin qubits.
Continue ReadingNew tools will help study quantum chemistry aboard the International Space Station
Wed, 15 Nov 2023
Rochester Professor Nicholas Bigelow helped develop experiments conducted at NASA’s Cold Atom Lab to probe the fundamental nature of the world around us.
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