Ohio State’s National Extreme Ultrafast Science Facility (NeXUS)

NeXUS will be managed by the Institute for Optical Science (IOS) and includes researchers from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Department of Physics. It was awarded $9.5 million in funding last fall from the National Science Foundation and will be an open-use NSF facility — the first such facility in the U.S. — housed in Celeste Lab. The facility will allow scientists from an array of fields to observe the high-speed interactions and relationships in the quantum world, the world in which nature’s tiniest particles live.