Post Tagged with: "physics and astronomy news"

By Amanda Biederman NQPI editorial intern A team of Ohio University researchers and their collaborators used a theoretical model to characterize the physical properties of certain samples of amorphous carbon and showed that these materials are, in fact, connected and distorted fragments of amorphous graphene in an article published in […]

Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Ohio University, authored a column in the Columbus Dispatch headlined “Is there life on Mars? Discovery of water provides tantalizing clue.” The European Space Agency has done it again. It has scooped NASA with a new discovery: a subglacial lake on […]

By Ryan Tumbleson ’20 B.S. Engineering Physics, Honors Tutorial College, B.S. Electrical Engineering, Russ College of Engineering and Technology For the third consecutive summer, I had the chance to intern at the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. Working under the direction of Dr. Saw Wai-Hla, […]

A team of Ohio University nuclear physicists has proposed a new theoretical model for calculating pairing properties of atomic nuclei including those found in extreme astrophysical environments. As in some solids in which two interacting electrons pair up to act as one object that leads to superconductivity, interacting neutrons (or […]

By Raymond Humienny NQPI writing intern Ohio University Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute alumnus Greg Petersen visited the Athens campus recently for the Condensed Matter and Surface Science Colloquium as a part of the “Bring Back OUr Alumni” event. Petersen, an algorithm engineer, shared his thoughts about establishing a career […]

Dr. Mark Lucas, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, helped children to create judo-bots with the Ohio Valley Museum of Discovery in The Plains, according to an Athens Messenger story headlined “Robots battle it out at The Plains Public Library.” THE PLAINS — It was an exciting afternoon at The […]

Dr. Daniel Phillips, Professor of Physics & Astronomy and Director of the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, was quoted in an article headlined “How many neutrons can you cram into an atom? More than physicists thought” in Science magazine. Physicists in Japan have blasted out the heaviest calcium nuclei ever […]