Robert Spiers is UD’s first graduate student to win NNSA Stewardship Science fellowship
Some may look for the easiest, quickest path forward. That would not be Robert “Robbie” Spiers, who is a doctoral student at the University of Delaware. (more…)
Understanding that even planets in pristine solar systems have some orbital tilt puts Earth’s solar system into a larger perspective, researchers say. (more…)
DNA-Analyse der Käferart macht Rückschlüsse auf eine heute unter Wasser liegende, damalige Insel möglich
Eine neue Studie zu Rüsselkäfern unter der Leitung der Biologen Harald Letsch von der Universität Wien und Alexander Riedel vom Staatlichen Naturkundemuseum in Karlsruhe bringt fachübergreifende neue Erkenntnisse. (more…)
The Wu Tsai Institute’s first artist in residence explores her subjects’ inner worlds — and creates opportunity for unexpected collaborations. (more…)
Forschungsteam der Universität Tübingen nutzt den offenen Sternhaufen Messier 37 als Himmelslabor zur Bestimmung der Sternentwicklung und der Messung seines Masseverlusts
Sonnenähnliche Sterne beenden ihr Leben als Weißer Zwerg. Manche davon sind von einem planetarischen Nebel umgeben, der aus Gas besteht, das der sterbende Stern kurz vor seinem Tod abgestoßen hat. (more…)
AUSTIN, Texas — A technological leap sits on the horizon, with exciting capabilities like quantum computing, soft robotics and more coming down the pike. To bring these ideas to reality will require engineering new classes of materials that make up their building blocks. (more…)
Shoppers like flawless diamonds, but for quantum physicists, the flaws are the best part.
Senior Elisabeth Rülke has spent the past year using lasers and flawed diamonds — tiny wafers of diamond with flaws the size of a single atom — to develop a quantum sensor. (more…)
Here we go again with ChatGPT:
Prompt: You are a great physicist, mathematician and inventor of all time. You obviously know the story of Archimedes, how he invented the method for determining the volume of an object and his joyful crying “Eureka!“. Can you please describe it in a way that even someone who has no knowledge of physics understand it clearly and find it very amusing. I mean, can you bring some fun to the story as well? Please take your time and write it in details. (more…)
