Science news articles about 'physics professor'

A Western Illinois University physics professor has discovered a way to understand lasing without inversion, which will allow the generation of X-ray and gamma-ray laser light without needing large ...

... and thorium atoms. Albert V. Crewe, a physics professor who captured the first image of a single atom and ...

... great Hollywood script. But, according to UC Santa Barbara Physics Professor Steve Giddings, it's pure fiction. ... upcoming edition of the peer-reviewed journal Physical Review D, documenting his study ...

... same course you took in high school or college. Making use of state-of-the-art technology, Associate Professor Simon Capstick is helping his students get a more hands-on, collaborative educational ...

... would disprove the basic tenet that the laws of physics remain the same for any two objects ... rotated relative to one another. IU distinguished physics professor Alan Kostelecky and graduate student ...

... with students, making things," says Peter Fisher, division head of particle and nuclear experimental physics, who began working with Yamamoto in 1994. "He was happiest when he had his hands on some ...

... use principles and techniques from physics to attack important problems in cancer biology," says MIT physics professor Alexander van Oudenaarden, who will direct the center. "We want to develop tools ...

... Other members of the team include physics professor Humphrey Maris and engineering professor Arto Nurmikko of Brown University and electrical engineering associate professor Ali Shakouri of U-C Santa ...

... is fundamental to biology and is of importance in understanding many diseases. University of Illinois physics professor Paul Selvin and his colleagues focused on a motor protein, centromeric protein ...

... protein catalyst, elongation factor G (EF-G). In the new study, a team led by University of Illinois physics professor Taekjip Ha used fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) to ...

... in the field with regards to how these channels respond to voltage," said University of Illinois physics professor Paul Selvin, who led the study. The controversy centers on a key segment of the ion ...

... learn the trends that govern a material's transition to superconductivity" said Piers Coleman, physics professor at Rutgers. Coleman, along with Rutgers graduate student Rebecca Flint and Columbia ...

... Scientists hypothesized that bismuth crystals should also exhibit analogous electronic states. The Princeton group, led by physics professor N. Phuan Ong, fixed a crystal of ...

... bit, or qubit, can be both at the same time. Until now, scientists couldn't stabilize that duality. Physics professor Duncan Steel, doctoral student Xiaodong Xu and their ...

... . But a new golf gadget developed by a Yale physics professor takes a different approach to golf training. Rather than focusing on the mechanics, the device lets players literally " ...