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‘A more versatile and powerful foundation for future photonic technologies’

Physics research team led by Professor Hui Deng has found more pathways than previously thought that can lead to optical topological insulators, materials with exciting properties that could have future applications in lasers, imaging devices, and more.

Scientists achieve record precision probing a particle where the universe may be hiding its secrets

An international team of scientists, including physicists Tim Chupp, David Aguillard, and Eva Kraegeloh, from the University of Michigan, has made the most precise measurement ever of an important, wobbly feature of a subatomic particle called the muon.

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