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GIF of the moon moving between the Earth and the sun as it forms a solar corona during a total eclipse.

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Eclipse helped Rochester alumnus see solar corona in new light

Observations made by William Harkness during the 1869 total eclipse led to a pivotal discovery about the sun’s corona.

Pipette releasing a water droplet atop carbon paper to illustrate the remediation of pfas forever chemicals.

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Harmful ‘forever chemicals’ removed from water with new electrocatalysis method

A novel approach using laser-made nanomaterials made from nonprecious metals could lay the foundation for globally scalable remediation techniques.

The sun seen in space with plasma oscillations occurring on the surface.

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Plasma oscillations propel breakthroughs in fusion energy

Rochester researchers have discovered a new class of plasma oscillations, paving the way for improved particle accelerators and commercial fusion energy.

Falling rocks warning sign in front of rocks and boulders of various sizes along a mountainside to illustrate the idea of granular systems.

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Reshaping our understanding of granular systems

February 9, 2024

Rochester researchers are uncovering the unexpected role of grain shape in the mixing of granular systems such as pharmaceuticals, cereal, and landslides.

View from inside the OMEGA laser system's target chamber during a direct drive fusion experiment.

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Scientists create new ‘spark plug’ for fusion reactions

February 5, 2024

Techniques developed with the Laboratory for Laser Energetics’ OMEGA laser system hold promise for sparking fusion at larger scales.

Four tubes, each a different color, containing hydrogels frozen in liquid nitrogen and obtained via 3d bioprinting.

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Printing plant-based pharmaceuticals—without plants

February 5, 2024

Rochester undergraduates developed a 3D-printing system to replicate chemicals found in plants, including those endangered by climate change.

Black-and-white photo of Brian J. Thompson working with an optical setup.

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Brian J. Thompson, provost emeritus and professor emeritus of optics, remembered

February 2, 2024

Thompson was a longtime University leader and a pioneer in optics and holography.

Edward Thorndike smiles at the camera with a blackboard full of equations in the background.

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Edward Thorndike, physicist who found ‘beauty’ in b quarks, remembered

January 31, 2024

Thorndike made pathbreaking contributions to the study of matter.

Illustration of hafnia (hafnium oxide) crystal molecules.

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Manipulated hafnia paves the way for next-gen memory devices

January 22, 2024

Scientists outline new processes for leveraging hafnia’s ferroelectric features to enhance high-performance computing.

Close-up of tweezers holding µSiM chip of the kind University of Rochester’s Translational Center for Barrier Microphysiological Systems (TraCe-bMPS).

Health & Medicine

New NIH-funded center could soon reduce the need for pharmaceutical trials on animals

January 9, 2024

Rochester is one of four NIH-sponsored centers that aims to produce tissue-on-chip devices as FDA-qualified drug development tools.

Illustration depicting five conveyer belts, each carrying different type of cartoon alien and going through an "O2" representing the atmospheric oxygen bottleneck. The aliens going through the largest "0" emerge with fire.

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Is oxygen the cosmic key to alien technology?

January 2, 2024

Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank explores the links between atmospheric oxygen and detecting extraterrestrial technology on distant planets.

illustration showing two views of Earth with ocean weather systems (mesoscale eddies, energized ones in red, weakened ones in blue) from data overlaid with atmospherically driven climate-scale currents (black lines).

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Scientists uncover link between the ocean’s weather and global climate

December 20, 2023

Using mechanical rather than statistical analysis, an international team of scientists offers a new framework for understanding the climate system.