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In the right place, even a less fit species can win

Published study uses mathematical models to describe the expansion of competing populations.

August 3, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty, Graduate Students, Biophysics

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New Advances Using Exotic Matter May Lead to Ultrafast Computing

Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment
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Do We Need an Anti-Nobel Prize?

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A computer simulation shows the collision of two black holes, detected for the first time by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2015.

How Lasers and Mirrors Proved Gravitational Waves Existed

Categories: Awards/Honors, In The News, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Growing Inventory of Black Holes Offers a Radical Probe of the Cosmos

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Dr. Si-Hui Tan PhD ’10, chief science officer of Horizon Quantum Computing

Categories: In The News, Students

A hierarchy of protein patterns robustly decodes cell shape information

Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, Students, WiSTEM, Biophysics
Artist's conception of a super Earth exoplanet with its star in the background.

Research updates from TESS: Hunting for worlds beyond our solar system

Categories: Research, Faculty, Students, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Physicists discover important new property for graphene

Categories: Research, Faculty, Students, Condensed Matter Experiment
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School of Science presents 2021 Infinite Expansion Awards

Categories: Awards/Honors, Postdocs, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Quantum tunneling in graphene advances the age of terahertz wireless communications

Categories: Research, Pappalardo Fellows, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment

An art lover dreams of space

Categories: Profile, Students, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Scientists as engaged citizens

Categories: In The News, Education, Faculty, Students
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