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A new way to detect subatomic particles from deep space

Steven Prohira is a neutrino hunter. The postdoctoral researcher at Ohio State's Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics is principal investigator on a new project, the NSF-funded Radar Echo…

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Forest sustainability: How Maya social norms affect ecology

Sean Downey, associate professor of anthropology and core faculty member of Ohio State's Sustainability Institute, explores how social and cultural norms among Maya farmers in Belize impact local…

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What election polls actually tell us about the 2020 presidential race

As President Donald Trump’s 2016 victory revealed, any prediction can still be turned upside down once the votes are counted. How trustworthy are polls in reality?

Ohio State's Scarlet Laser

LaserNetUS high-power laser consortium including Ohio State receives $18M from the Department of Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded LaserNetUS, a network of facilities operating ultra-powerful lasers that includes Ohio State's Scarlet Laser Facility, $18 million in new funding to…

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Suchland examines links between abolition and modern day slavery

Jennifer Suchland, a 2020 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Scholars and Society Fellow, is researching the links between historical and modern-day slavery in collaboration with the…

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Ohio State-led QuSTEAM initiative to transform U.S. quantum education

QuSTEAM, an initiative funded by the National Science Foundation, is a multi-institutional program led by Ohio State that works together with industry and national laboratories to revamp…

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School of Music, ACCAD working toward lag reduction in online music collaboration

While lag can be a small annoyance during a meeting, it has made live music collaboration virtually impossible over the internet during the pandemic.

Artist's rendering of laser pulses interacting with impulsively aligned CO2 molecules from a gas jet.

NeXUS workshop demonstrates ultrafast laser's interdisciplinary potential

Ohio State's upcoming National Extreme Ultrafast Science Facility (NeXUS) will house a laser that will allow researchers a better look at ultrafast electron motion. A user workshop was recently held…

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Ohio State leads 13 universities to understand climate change and ecosystems

Ohio State is one of 14 universities from around the globe that have been awarded $12.5 million from the National Science Foundation to launch a new Biology Integration Institute called EMERGE, which…