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A ‘vibrant nexus’ for research and discovery in the physical sciences
With the construction of a new Physical Sciences Building and updates to the David Rittenhouse Laboratory, Penn will create a modernized physical sciences quadrant that integrates state-of-the-art
Read MoreCongratulations to Bo Zhen and his team for their new DARPA contract to work on their “next generation of night vision eye glasses”!
Leveraging new tech, DARPA aims for night-vision goggles the size and weight of regular eyeglasses.
Read MoreThe Large Hadron Collider and the End of the World
In this episode, Evelyn Thomson looks back at the concerns that swirled around the launch of high-energy particle collision experiments like the Large Hadron Collider.
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