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As the massive LSST camera project reaches its culmination, Hannah Pollek is one of the engineers in the clean room each day putting the pieces together.
Hannah Pollek Portrait
A new understanding of the nucleation process could shed light on how the shells help microbes interact with their environments, and help people design self-assembling nanostructures for various tasks.
Illustration of tiles forming a microbial shell
What they learned could lead to a better understanding of how antibiotics are broken down in the body, potentially leading to the development of more effective drugs.
A new study uncovers how a critical protein binds to drugs used to treat asthma and other inflammatory diseases.
Anti-asthmatic drugs
A better understanding of these materials and how they store and transport oil and gas could one day enable more efficient fossil fuel production.
Aromatic carbon
It reveals an abrupt transition in cuprates where particles give up their individuality. The results...
Illustration of abrupt transition in normal state of a cuprate
Called XLEAP, the new method will provide sharp views of electrons in chemical processes that take p...
XLEAP
Computer simulations yield a much more accurate picture of these states of matter.
Illustration of a Monte Carlo simulation

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