Cheating on physics gets us great microscopes and three Nobel Prizes
Standard fluorescence microscopy (left) and PALM images (right). Note that the scale bar in the far right image is roughly the diffraction limit. Nobel Prizes/originally Betzig et. al., Science. This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry honors an …
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STEM Café offers 'Physics of Football' encore in Sugar Grove
This encore presentation of the crowd-pleasing “Physics of Football” presentation will provide a thought-provoking look into the science behind one of our country's most popular and physical sports. Armchair quarterbacks and science geeks alike will …
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The Physics Of Manicures Reveal A Public Health Warning
Reading the scientific literature on nails I quickly realized that very little physics or maths had been applied to nails and their conditions. "Looking at our results, we suggest that nail beauty fanatics who trim their nails on a daily basis opt for …
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Physics' Xuemei May Cheng's Research Group Studies Spintronics
This summer, Class of 2017 members Leqi Liu, Alena Klindziuk, Yilun Tang, and graduate student Xiao Wang went to the Advanced Photon Source of the Argonne National Laboratory outside of Chicago, a massive facility that generates the brightest hard …
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