News & Events
Recent News
- Why Black Holes Slow Down
- When two black holes merge, the resulting larger black hole usually shoots away from its birthplace, but it immediately slows down in some cases, according to computer simulations. In the 4 June Physical Review Letters, a team offers an explanation for this puzzling deceleration.
- published by Physical Review Focus on June 24, 2010
- How Thin Films Melt
- If you heat a crystal that is just a few molecules thick, it melts differently from a macroscopically thick crystal.
- published by Physical Review Focus on May 21, 2010
- An Atom At The End Of The Material World
- Five years of preparation, eight months collecting a few drops of precious radioactive material from a nuclear reactor in Tennessee, five trans-Atlantic flights, millions in research dollars and rubles, and six months of nearly 24-hour-a-day bombardment in a Russian particle accelerator had come to this: Element 117.
- published by Inside Science on April 22, 2010
Past Events
Sigma Pi Sigma Quadrennial Congress
Nov 06, 2008 - Nov 08, 2008
in Batavia, IL
Sigma Pi Sigma event
This is the quadrennial meeting of Sigma Pi Sigma.
