physics
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October 22, 2018
U-M researchers update device to quickly sniff out gases
U-M researchers have refined a laser-based gas-sniffing device so it can detect poisonous gases and explosives in less than half a second.
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October 19, 2017
Leinweber Foundation gives $8M for physics center in LSA
An $8 million gift from the Leinweber Foundation will help students and faculty from the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics study fundamental questions in particle physics and the evolution of our universe.
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October 17, 2016
U-M helps find solar system’s second-most distant minor planet
Astronomers at U-M and their colleagues on the Dark Energy Survey have discovered a new dwarf planet that’s more than 90 times farther from the sun than Earth.
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February 11, 2016
University researchers contribute to gravitational wave discovery
U-M researchers have been involved in the scientific collaboration that made a groundbreaking discovery of ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves.
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April 9, 2015
U-M to help build next-generation dark energy probe
University scientists and students will build components of a giant camera that will map 30 million galaxies’ worth of the universe in three dimensions.
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February 2, 2015
Saturday Morning Physics returns with focus on planet, star formation
The popular Saturday Morning Physics series opens its winter program this Saturday with a presentation by Jon Miller, associate professor of astronomy, on accretion power.
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October 14, 2014
Saturday Morning Physics returns with sports focus
The popular Saturday Morning Physics lecture series has returned this fall with sports-focused presentations, inspired by the LSA Fall Theme Semester, Sport in the University.
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March 19, 2014
Gravity wave discovery supports U-M physicist’s 25-year-old theory
A U-M physicist’s theory of how so-called cosmic inflation works received support from a major astronomical announcement this week.
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