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Magnetic Reconnection Offers New Insight into Harnessing Energy from Black Holes

Sai Rayasam, Physical Sciences, Fall 2020 Figure 1: Basic architecture of a rotating black hole. In the middle is the singularity, a one-dimensional point of infinite density (but…

Primordial Black Holes: The Key to Dark Matter?

Maddie Brown, Physical Sciences, Winter 2021 Figure 1: The first picture of a blackhole. Source: Wikimedia Commons Fourteen billion years ago, the Big Bang caused the universe to…

Scientists Create “Shapeshifting” Inorganic Hydrogels

Andrew Sasser, Physical Sciences, Winter 2021 This is an example of a hydrophilic hydrogel polymer. Hydrogels are normally very elastic materials composed of organic or inorganic materials mixed…

The Unruh Effect: Newly Proposed Experiment Aims to Detect Vacuum Radiation Due to Acceleration

Sai Rayasam, Physical Sciences, Fall 2020 Figure 1: The Unruh effect states that for an accelerating observer, the temperature of empty space rises, causing the appearance of a…

“Green” Method Developed for Reduction of Alkenes to Alkanes

Andrew Sasser ‘23, Physical Sciences, Fall 2020 Figure 1: Structure of tris(acetylacetonato)iron(III), an airstable iron catalyst commonly used in organic synthesis. Although this catalyst is generally not capable…