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10 Black Women in Academia That You Need To Know About
African Americans make up 7 percent of American college and university faculty. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a theoretical physicist at the UW, is featured.
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Scientists plan to march on Washington — but where will it get them?
In April, thousands of scientists will take to the streets to rally on behalf of publicly funded, openly communicated, evidence-based research.
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Russian Jamming Got You Down? Try Talking Underwater
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is preparing to test a network of radio relays on sea buoys (developed by the UW's Applied Physics Lab) and connected via fiber-optic cable.
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UW Hyperloop team fuels its final dash to the national pod races with crowdfunding
The UW’s Hyperloop team is getting ready to compete in a set of pod races aimed at blazing a trail for a new means of near-supersonic travel – but they need a little help to get to the starting line. -
Dark Matter Hunters Are Hoping 2017 Is Their Year
It can be unsettling to realize that only 5 percent of the universe is made of the kind of matter we know and understand. Leslie Rosenberg, professor of physics at the UW, is quoted. -
Microsoft researchers lay down a big bet on topological quantum computers
Microsoft says it’s moving ahead from just talking about quantum computing to building an actual quantum computer, based on the physics that won a Nobel Prize this year.
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Quantum computers can talk to each other via a photon translator
Researchers have come up with a way to allow one quantum computer component to efficiently transmit information to another, without losing its quantum character.
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The Structures of Our Cells Live Inside the Stars
Instead of being unique to human cells, it turns out that Terasaki "ramps" show up elsewhere, too: in the crust of collapsed stars.
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Axion Alert! Exotic Particle Detector May Miss Out on Dark Matter
Supercomputer calculation suggests hypothesized particle may be heavier than thought.
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For Physics, Another Nobel
Professor Emeritus David Thouless is the Physics Department's second Nobel Prize recipient.
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What The Hell Is Going On With Dark Energy?
Last week, the science media was abuzz with reports that dark energy might not exist. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, postdoctoral associate in physics at the UW, is quoted.
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Foreign-born professors account for US Nobel haul
Of the six winners of Nobel Prizes affiliated with American universities so far this year, all are foreign born.
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Are the Nobel prizes missing female scientists?
A total of 203 people have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, but only two were women.
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UW's David Thouless wins share of Nobel physics prize for weird science of superconductors
David Thouless, a British-born professor emeritus at the University of Washington, has been awarded half of this year’s Nobel physics prize.
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Bagels and buns: The research that won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics explained
This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics went to three men — all born in Britain, but working at U.S. universities.