Science & Technology

Physicists in Arts & Sciences are helping to shape the theoretical framework behind exciting new experiments at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.

Yashika Kapoor, a postdoctoral fellow in physics from Arts & Sciences, will attend the 73rd annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany. The event is a globally recognized forum for exchange between Nobel laureates and young scientists.

In a new paper in Physical Review Letters, Kater Murch in Arts & Sciences and his collaborators explore the effects of memory in quantum systems. View an illustrated video about the experiments and findings.

Mark Lawrence and Ismael Seáñez, both assistant professors in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University, have won $25,000 Collaboration Initiation Grants from the school.

Washington University in St. Louis will manage data processing and dissemination for the Lunar Environment Monitoring Station, one of the first three potential payloads selected for Artemis III, NASA’s mission which will return astronauts to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

Although earthquakes may seem uncommon in the New York area, they are not unheard of — and there are similarities to earthquakes experienced in St. Louis, according to seismologist Doug Wiens in Arts & Sciences.

Five planetary scientists from WashU’s McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences are available to speak with reporters from the path of totality for the Monday, April 8, solar eclipse. The scientists will be at Bollinger Mill State Historic Site in southern Missouri, near Cape Girardeau.

Research led by geochemist Rita Parai in Arts & Sciences offers a glimpse of Earth’s history by tracking infinitesimal levels of noble gases in volcanic rocks. The new study is published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

A conveyer belt of ice jostles the entire Ross Ice Shelf out of place at least once daily, according to new research from Washington University in St. Louis.

A $300,000 award from NASA’s Early Career Investigator Program in Earth Science will allow Roger Michaelides, in Arts & Sciences, to track interactions between permafrost and wildfires in a warming Arctic, work that could shed new light on climate change.