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Professor Jens-Christian Meiners Receives Grant to Tackle the Bends

When divers develop the bends, it's from nitrogen forming bubbles in their spinal cord tissue. Professor Jens-Christian Meiners is studying whether these bubbles fracture spinal cord tissue or compress it—which affects treatment.

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Physicist Roy Clarke and International Team Devise Way Which Shows How Common Elements Can Make a More Energy-Secure Future

Thin-film solar panels, cell phones and the LED bulb lighting your home are all made using some of the rarest, most expensive elements found on the planet. The team has devised a way to make these materials from cheaper, more abundant elements.

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2019 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses

Dr. Donna Strickland, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy and Nobel Laureate, Physics 2018 (University of Waterloo)

4:00 PM
Rackham Auditorium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)

With the invention of lasers, the intensity of a light wave was increased by orders of magnitude over what had been achieved with a light bulb or sunlight. This much higher intensity led to new phenomena being observed, such as violet light coming...

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