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Prof. Mathur and his students find a flaw in the theory that black holes are surrounded by a burning ring of fire

Professor Samir Mathur and his team building on previous work from 2004 have recently published their work in the Journal of High Energy Physics.  Their work suggests that black…

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Phun with Physics begins today at the Ohio State Fair!

For the 17th year, our Instructional Support Staff (Harold Whitt, Chris Healy and Katie Ferrell) along with help from student volunteers are presenting Phun with Physics at the Ohio State Fair. (…

Spin

OSU Hosting Spin Caloritronics IX Conference June 25-29, 2018

The PRB will be the site of the 2018 Spin Caloritronics IX Conference this week.  The conference organized by Prof. Jos Heremens and Prof. P. Chris Hammel focuses on thermal spin transport,…

Jeanie Lau

Researchers in the US and Japan led by Prof Jeanie Lau and her group observe super spins in carbon sheet

Physics World recently reported on the work of Prof. Jeanie Lau and her group who in collaboration with scientists in the US and Japan have observed for the first time spin superfluidity and very…

Dark fusion

Assistant professor of astronomy and physics, Annika Peter, quoted in ScienceNews

This picture depicts dark clouds - Galaxies and galaxy clusters are surrounded by dark matter (illustrated in blue over an image of a cluster Abell 2744; red indicates gas). Dark matter particles…

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Prof. John Beacom quoted in Tech Times article about neutrinos

Recent results after more than three years of experiments at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory show strong evidence of how neutrinos behave.  As a neutrino expert, Arts and Sciences…

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Professor Sooryakumar is part of an OSU team building tiny robots from strands of DNA, remote-controlled using magnetic fields

Read "Using magnets to control DNA-robots" published in Cosmos on June 7, 2018 to learn about the work of  Prof of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Carlos Castro, Physics professor…

Michael Stamatikos

SciDome brings Prof. Michael Stamatikos's dream to life

The dream of Assistant Professor of Physics Michael Stamatikos came to life last week as the SciDome planetarium at the Works officially opened in Newark on Saturday June 9.  This was a…

CMS

The work of Profs. Richard Hughes, Brian Winer and their research groups contribute to new results regarding the Higgs Boson

CERN just released new results from the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC. (See press release below).  The initial effort to search for ttH production on the CMS experiment was established…