Washington University in St. Louis is part of a collaboration that has yielded new insight into one of the universe’s primordial reactions that made all life on Earth possible. Go… Read More »Novel particle detector used to study alternate path to carbon creation in stars
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In a new study now published as a report and also illustrated as the online cover-page of Science Advances, Julien Chopin, Arshad Kudrolli, and a research team in Physics in… Read More »Kinematics of stretched sheets