A massive congratulations to second year PhD student, Kyla de Villa, who has published her very first scientific article in Nature Communications. The paper reports a novel state matter: double superionicity, in which two atomic species behave like a liquid while the largest atoms remain...Read more about Kyla de Villa discovers a new state of matter - double superionicity!
It is with the greatest pleasure that we share the news that Daniel Stolper was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Being granted tenure is a major accomplishment, but it is also just one stage in what will surely be...Read more about Congratulations Daniel Stolper!
Profs. Kurt Cuffey and David Shuster along with former postdocs Alka Tripathy-Lang and Matt Fox have developed new constraints to show that most of the relief in Yosemite Valley has been generated in the geologically recent past as the Sierra Nevada have been uplifting and glaciers have...Read more about How old is Yosemite Valley?
In the article written by Robert Sanders, it mentions that researchers have found new large DNA molecules that have infected archaea and along the way have acquired a slew of genes from the archaeal hosts. The article says, "The researchers dubbed these microbes Borgs because, analogous to...Read more about Like the Borg of Star Trek, These 'Aliens' Assimilate DNA From Other Microbes
Our very own doctoral students, Tanja Kovacevic and Mercedes Vasquez were featured in a Vox interview titled "This Giant Laser can Simulate a Planet's Core". The video talks about the high temperatures and pressures in the core of planet Earth. The video talks about some of the tools scientists...Read more about Mercedes Vasquez & Tanja Kovacevic Featured in Vox Interview