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Pondering the Bits That Build Space-Time and Brains
Vijay Balasubramanian investigates whether the fabric of the universe might be built from information, and what it means that physicists can even ask such a question.
Congratulations to Joshua Chen for receiving a Goldwater 2022 Scholarship!
Joshua Chen, an undergraduate in Marija Drndic's group, is among five Penn Juniors to be named 2022 Goldwater Scholars.
Decoding a material’s ‘memory’
A new study details the relationship between particle structure and flow in disordered materials, insights that can be used to understand systems ranging from mudslides to biofilms.
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