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Ghosts are always welcome, when you’re looking for neutrinos

By Guest PostNovember 14, 2015Sciencebonnie fleming, building block, dune, ghosts, matter, microboone, neutrinos, physics experiment, sam zeller, subatomic particles, welcome, yale physicist

Halloween has come and gone, but Yale physicist Bonnie Fleming still has ghosts in her machine.

On Oct. 15, Fleming and colleagues at the MicroBooNE physics experiment in Illinois detected their first neutrino candidates, which are also known as ghost particles. It represents a milestone for the project, involving years of hard work and a 40-foot-long particle detector that is filled with 170 tons of liquid argon. (more…)

Invasion in the Desert: Why Some Plant Species are Survivors

By Guest PostSeptember 25, 2013Environment, Natureblooming chaenactis stevioides, brassica tournefortii, changing environment, desert, desert plants, doctoral student, dry environments, dune, environmental policy, environmental variation, field ecologist, fitness density covariance, habitat, invasion, invasive species, max li, mohawk valley, native desert plants, peter chesson, plant species, research, sahara mustard, sand, sonoran desert, southern arizona, Space, survivors, time, university of arizona, winter rainfall

Max Li’s research could inform policies to promote sustainable native environments and curb the invasion of alien plant species.

Max Li, a University of Arizona doctoral student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is studying mechanisms that determine how competing desert plants can coexist with each other and what factors can cause the destruction of this stable coexistence.

His research could help inform policies to curb the spread of invasive species. (more…)