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Feb 14, 2024

An Instrumental Place

Experimental research often requires the creation of custom equipment. The Department of Physics Instrument Shop is up for the challenge. 

Dec 15, 2023

Carbon Electronics Cluster Co-directors Named to Highly Cited Researchers List

Harald Ade, Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Professor of Physics, and Aram Amassian, University Faculty Scholar and professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, have been named to an annual list of the world’s most highly cited researchers.

Dec 7, 2023

Ancient Stars Made Extraordinarily Heavy Elements

How heavy can an element be? Ancient stars were capable of producing elements heavier than any element on the periodic table found naturally on Earth.

Nov 27, 2023

Understanding Charged Particles Helps Physicists Simulate Element Creation in Stars

Figuring out how nucleons interact at low energy can lead to understanding how elements form within stars.

Oct 24, 2023

Physicist McLaughlin Wins Feshbach Prize

Gail McLaughlin, Distinguished University Professor of Physics, won the 2024 Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics.

Oct 23, 2023

Using AI to Solve Fundamental Issues in Nuclear Physics

A new collaboration aims to solve the nuclear many-body problem.

Sep 28, 2023

NC State Researchers Awarded $3 Million from NSF to Design Revolutionary Materials

The research will drive the design, discovery and development of advanced materials needed to address major societal challenges.

Aug 31, 2023

An ‘Introspective’ AI Finds Diversity Improves Performance

An AI that can learn how it learns chooses a diverse neural network to solve problems.

Jun 26, 2023

Where Do New Galaxies Come From?

Rongmon Bordoloi talks about primordial gasses and how galaxies are born.

Jun 12, 2023

60 Seconds with Laura Clarke

Alumni distinguished undergraduate professor of physics.