The dissertation proposal and the specialty exam serve different purposes and should be viewed as separate activities, even though often executed concurrently. The dissertation proposal marks the ...

Physics can feel inscrutable to students; this lesson helps them understand a graphing problem by analyzing their own ...

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS ...

The Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology gathers today’s leaders in space science to study and understand interactions between Earth and the solar system and beyond. We focus our ...

Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC), a remarkable manifestation of quantum mechanics in systems with many particles, has over the past century reshaped our understanding of the fundamental phases of ...

Biophysics is the study of physical phenomena and physical processes in living things, on scales spanning molecules, cells, tissues and organisms. Biophysicists use the principles and methods of ...

In a spin Artist’s impression of the merger of two black holes, one of which is much more massive than the other. (Courtesy: Carl Knox/OzGrav/Swinburne University of Technology) The LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA ...

Steering the light A cross section of the electrowetting prism under actuation. A differential voltage applied across opposing electrodes will produce a tilt in the liquid-liquid interface that steers ...

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