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Graphene May Change the Way the World Works
SummaryBut What Rivets Theorists’ Attention Is Its Electrons Behaving Like Neutrinos
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When Collaborators Are a Couple: Globular Clusters Provide Case Study
SummaryHe was an assistant professor at MIT; she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. They met at one scientific conference, and married at another (the latter, at least, in scenic Aspen).
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Novel Research Collaboration Leads to Discovery Of ‘Fire in the Earth System’
SummaryFire is to be considered not only as a consequence of global warming, but also causal in the inexorable chain reaction of a positive feedback mechanism.
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Complexity Expert Plays Key Role Mixing Physics and Ecology
SummaryThree or, perhaps, four significant innovations characterized the “Physics of Climate Change” program...
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Clouds Raise Many a Question
SummaryIncluding the Curious Case of Cover Consistency
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Earth’s Climate: More Science Needed
SummaryIf there was one overriding conclusion to be drawn from the KITP pioneering effort to look at “The Physics of Climate Change,” it is “more science needed.”
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Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology Condensed Matter Theorist
SummaryIn Honor of Mother, Son Endows Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology Condensed Matter Theorist, Turned Theoretical Biologist, Named First Holder
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Likely Discovery Of Faint and Fast Supernova Confirms Predicted Explosion
SummaryAn explosion — observable in theory, but never seen on the night sky – emerged a little over two years ago from calculations carried out by a team of astrophysicists, including KITP permanent member Lars Bildsten and postdoctoral fellow Nevin Weinberg, as well as UCSB physics graduate student Ken Shen and Bildsten’s long-time Dutch collaborator Gijs Nelemans of Radboud University in Nijmegen.
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