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Every parent wants their child to be happy, healthy, and thriving. But many whose children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder worry that it will make their lives more difficult.
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Using an ultra-powerful laser, researchers have successfully characterised liquid carbon in the lab for the first time. The experiments offer rare insight into one of the most abundant elements in the universe, which, despite its ubiquity, remains the least understood in its liquid form among stable elements.
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Late in 2023, a video shared on Reddit that captured a passenger plane flying over San Francisco went viral because it appeared to be levitating mid-air. While some fighter jets can hover in place, there aren't any commercial planes with the technology to do so. What you see in the video is an optical illusion that has more to do with the concept of reference points and motion than any secret hover mode.

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Ph.D. candidate Josie Libero-Cruzado and Ph.D. student Becca Manns, along with faculty advisors Frederic Poineau and Dan Koury (all Chemistry and Biochemistry), recently published an article in the Journal of Alloys and Compounds. Their research, "Diffusion and phase formation in the γ-uranium-…
Cynthia Tochukwu Nnolum (Mathematical Sciences) published a research article titled "Dynamics of Solutions to a Multi-patch Epidemic Model with a Saturation Incidence Mechanism," in the Journal of Mathematical Biology.  The paper analyzed the behavior of disease dynamics across multiple…

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Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy

An expert in astronomy, dark matter, and general physics.

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Professor, Life Sciences

Brian Hedlund in an expert in microbial ecology at high temperatures, biofuels and genomics. 

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Associate Professor-in-Residence, School of Life Sciences

An expert on mammals.

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