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  • Student smiling behind zebrafish tank.
    Summer insights from LAS undergraduate researchers

    From tracking superflares to studying NBA activism, LAS Dean's Undergraduate Research Award recipients share how they spent their summer. Read More

    August 9, 2021

  • This illustration shows how two sample star orbits are scattered from nearly circular orbits by the gravity of massive clumps within galaxies. Researchers have found that millions of orbital changes, like those shown here, smooth the overall light profile of galaxy disks. The blue star is scattered several times. The orange star is captured by the gravity of a clump and moves around it. A typical, relatively smooth spiral galaxy (UGC 12224) is shown in the background.
    Astronomers model, determine how disk galaxies evolve so smoothly

    Researchers develop better computer simulations to explain stellar scattering. Read More

    September 28, 2020

  • This illustration shows light wave acceleration of supercurrents, which gives researchers access to a new class of quantum phenomena. That access could chart a path forward for practical quantum computing, sensing and communicating applications.
    Using light waves to accelerate supercurrents to access properties of the quantum world

    Physicist Jigang Wang's research will benefit electronics with high speeds and low energy consumption. Read More

    May 19, 2020

  • Paul Canfield portrait photo
    Paul Canfield elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

    Canfield designs and discovers new materials and properties in the Department of Physics and the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory. Read More

    April 23, 2020

  • Fei receives NSF CAREER award

    Zhe Fei, assistant professor of physics, received an NSF CAREER grant for a proposal titled “Exploring chiral edge plasmons in novel two-dimensional materials.” The estimated… Read More

    January 23, 2020

  • graphic that shows electricity, magnetic force and push and pull strain interact to create MER
    Quantum materials measurement gets a boost

    Paul Canfield, Ames Lab physicist, Distinguished Professor and the Robert Allen Wright Professor of Physics and Astronomy, is conducting innovative research with collaborators in the field. Read More

    January 15, 2020

  • Snapshot of a spacecraft's 13-sector mosaic of the southern sky, recorded over the course of a year. One object shown in the mosaic is a long, bright edge of our Milky Way galaxy.
    Kawaler helps lead international team analyzing data from NASA mission

    LAS astronomers and an international team detail an interesting case of planetary evolution and demonstrate how star studies can be an important part of the search for planets beyond our solar system. Read More

    November 20, 2019

  • Jigang Wang standing behind lasers and other light measuring equipment in his laboratory.
    Physicists use light flashes to discover, control new quantum states of matter

    New tools and techniques could access new states of matter hidden within superconducting and other complex materials. Read More

    August 19, 2019

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