Artist's conception of information falling into a black hole
An artist's conception of information falling into a black hole. Researchers have implemented an experimental test for quantum scrambling, a chaotic shuffling of the information stored among a collection of quantum particles. The experiment was originally inspired by the physics of black holes. ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - May 16, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: video
Insulin injection by pill, climate game changer, how bees chill and reefs on the flip side
A new design for insulin thatÂs easy to swallow, deep-sea surprise game changer for climate, catching reefs on the flip side, and the physics of how bees chill.
Undersea Gases ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - February 16, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: video
LIGO: Looking Forward - An interview with the winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
In 2017, Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their efforts to find gravitational waves, energetic ripples in the fabric of space-time. First predicted by Albert Einstein a century before, the waves remained undetected until 2015 when NSF's ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - December 5, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: video
What is the future of synthetic biology?
Zan Luthey-Schulten, co-director at the Center for the Physics of Living Cells, answers the question on this edition of "Ask a Scientist."This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - August 8, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: video
Inventor of the blue LED Shuji Nakamura on how engineering innovations change the world
Shuji Nakamura, an electrical engineer at the University of California, Santa Barbara who won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014, gave a 2018 Engineering Directorate Distinguished Lecture at the National Science Foundation. Nakamura specializes in semiconductor technology, which led to his ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - April 21, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: video
" The Sarlacc, " by Adam Shields
"The Sarlacc," by Adam Shields. This antÂs spiracle, or air hole, is 35 microns wide -- smaller than the width of a human hair. The opening leads to the antÂs respiratory system, a network of hollow tubes that runs throughout its body. "To a nerdy physicist," says Shields, "this image was ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - March 13, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: video
Physics of Figure Skating -- Science and Engineering of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games
The 2018 Olympic Winter Games are underway in PyeongChang, South Korea, so it's a great time to look back at this physics of figure skating video made for the 2014 Olympics.
Figure skating has become one of the most popular events at the Winter Olympics. The head of the Physics ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - February 17, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: video
"Walking in Color"
"Walking in Color," by Daniel M. Harris and John W.M. Bush.
Quantum physics measures movements of the tiniest particles in the universe, which not only happen incredibly quickly and on very small scales, but also defy physicists' intuition. Analogies from the macroscopic world can help ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - January 2, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: video
First open-access collider data released
The Compact Muon Solenoid, a general-purpose detector, is one of the main detectors in the worlds largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider.
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A study by Jesse Thaler, an associate professor of physics at MIT and a long-time advocate for open access ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - November 15, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: video
"The Sarlacc," by Adam Shields
. This ants spiracle, or air hole, is 35 microns wide -- smaller than the width of a human hair. The opening leads to the ants respiratory system, a network of hollow tubes that runs throughout its body. "To a nerdy physicist," says Shields, "this image was ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - September 15, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: video
Scientists use physics equations that describe molecular interactions to predict bacterial battles
To harness bacteria for use in medicine or industry, or just to better understand how they thrive and spread, it's helpful to determine the consistency of their actions over time. That's where the math comes in. Georgia Tech researchers applied to the bacteria existing physics equations developed ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - March 30, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: video
IQIM members in lab of Oskar Painter, Caltech
Members of the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) at Caltech, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Physics Frontiers Center, work in the lab of Oskar Painter, the John G. Braun Professor of Applied Physics. Research in the Painter Lab looks at ways to create new optical materials ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - February 14, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: video
How to Hit HIV Where It Hurts
Immunology Interest Group Seminar Series
No medical procedure has saved more lives than vaccination. But, today, some pathogens have evolved which have defied successful vaccination using the empirical paradigms pioneered by Pasteur and Jenner. One characteristic of many pathogens for which successful vaccines do not exist is that they present themselves in various guises. HIV is an extreme example because of its high mutability. This highly mutable virus can evade natural or vaccine induced immune responses, often by mutating at multiple sites linked by compensatory interactions. I will first describe how by bringing to t...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 10, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Innate Immune Mechanism for Viral dsRNA Detection – RIG-I-like Receptors
Immunology Interest Group
Dr. Hur received her B.S. in physics from Ewha Women’s University in Korea in 2001, her Ph.D. in physical chemistry with Dr. Thomas C. Bruice at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2003 and then did her post-doctoral work in X-ray crystallography with Dr. Robert M. Stroud at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Hur joined Harvard Medical School in 2008 as an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology. In 2014, she was promoted to an associate professor with a joint appointment at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Hur is a reci...
Source: Videocast - All Events - May 26, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Pi Day: Carlos Bustamante: Models and Data in Biomedicine: What's Real and What's Noise? And, Why Should We Care?
Data Science Distinguished Seminar Series
If you think of a scatterplot of data overlaid with a model for the data and ask practitioners from different fields, “what’s noise and what’s real?” the answers may surprise you. To a biologist, the data will almost surely be “what’s real” and the model is a poor approximation to the “truth.” To a physicist, the model is probably “what’s real” and the data is just a noisy realization of an underlying true physical process that we are attempting to study. As we think about the biomedical data enterprise in the 21st century and the massive amounts of data w...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 3, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
