If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Prof. Angela V. Olinto is the U.S. leader of an international collaboration to use the Earth’s atmosphere as a particle detector

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. University of Chicago physicists have succeeded in creating a vortex knot—a feat akin to tying a smoke ring into a knot. Linked and knotted vortex loops have existed in theory for more than a century, but creating them in the laboratory had previously eluded scientists.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. University of Chicago physicists have succeeded in creating a vortex knot—a feat akin to tying a smoke ring into a knot. Linked and knotted vortex loops have existed in theory for more than a century, but creating them in the laboratory had previously eluded scientists.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. For more information, see this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja886GtHlcE University of Chicago physicists have succeeded in creating a vortex knot—a feat akin to tying a smoke ring into a knot. Linked and knotted vortex loops have existed in theory for more than a century, but creating them in the laboratory had...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. For more information, see this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja886GtHlcE University of Chicago physicists have succeeded in creating a vortex knot—a feat akin to tying a smoke ring into a knot. Linked and knotted vortex loops have existed in theory for more than a century, but creating them in the laboratory had...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Last summer, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, announced the discovery of a new particle that could explain why elementary particles have mass. On February 7, 2013, a panel of experts from the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, and Fermilab discussed why this discovery marks the...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Last summer, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, announced the discovery of a new particle that could explain why elementary particles have mass. On February 7, 2013, a panel of experts from the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, and Fermilab discussed why this discovery marks the...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. On Dec. 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and his team achieved the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, as part of the wartime Manhattan Project. We look back at the momentous event and its impact on the University.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. On Dec. 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and his team achieved the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, as part of the wartime Manhattan Project. We look back at the momentous event and its impact on the University.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Heinrich Jaeger, William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Professor in Physics, and Scott Waitukaitis, a graduate student in the Physics department, have published a report in the July 12 issue of Nature on the process of impact-activated solidification that occurs when compressive forces are applied to fluid-grain suspensions....

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The exhilarating spray from waves crashing into the shore, the distressing sound of a faucet leaking in the night, and the indispensable role of bubbles dissolving gas into the oceans are but a few examples of the ubiquitous presence and profound importance of drop formation and splashing in our lives. They are also examples of a...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Margaret Gardel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Physics, is a 2007 recipient of the NIH Director's Pioneer award, along with four others from The University of Chicago. Fundamentally interdisciplinary, Gardel's research straddles both the physical and biological sciences by exploring disease on a molecular level. Gardel explains...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. As one of four lectures from the Alumni Club's Day of Science, physicist Sidney Nagel discusses several familiar phenomena that are so ubiquitous that we hardly realize they defy our normal intuition in Physics at the Breakfast Table.

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA) will be the world's most powerful research accelerator dedicated to producing and exploring new rare isotopes that cannot be found on earth. Tour the ATLAS facility and see why The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory is the ideal future home for RIA. Copyright 2005 The...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Margaret Gardel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Physics, is a 2007 recipient of the NIH Director's Pioneer award, along with four others from The University of Chicago. Fundamentally interdisciplinary, Gardel's research straddles both the physical and biological sciences by exploring disease on a molecular level. Gardel explains...