October 4, 2024
This artist’s impression of a planet-forming disk surrounding a young star shows a swirling “pancake” of hot gas and dust from which planets form. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers obtained detailed images showing the layered, conical structure of disk winds – streams of gas blowing out into space. National Astronomical […]
October 1, 2024
Clemson University researchers, led by Laura Finzi, have uncovered the role of mechanical forces in gene transcription, specifically in RNA polymerase (RNAP) activity during termination. While the traditional view holds that RNAP dissociates from DNA after releasing mRNA, the team demonstrated that force can cause RNAP to slide forward or backward on the DNA template. […]
September 4, 2024
Above: a YouTube video related to Dr. Lehmacher’s NASA VortEx rocket launched on 23 March 2023 from Andøya Space Center, Norway. The video shows a very detailed simulation of the winds and waves over northern Scandinavia based on the actual weather conditions and including the time when we launched two sounding rockets. The high-resolution (1.2 […]
June 10, 2024
A little over three decades ago, the only planets we could confirm were the ones in our solar system. But with the advent of more powerful telescopes on the ground and new observatories in space, scientists have since discovered the existence of thousands of exoplanets orbiting stars other than our sun. According to Janus Kozdon, […]
May 15, 2024
In our universe, only about 15% of matter is known or seen, while the remaining 85% is known as dark matter, a substance that remains largely unexplained by scientists. Circiello, a graduate research assistant in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Clemson University, recently presented his research at the American Physical Society’s April meeting, […]
April 23, 2024
Clemson Department of Physics and Astronomy Professor, Feng Ding, and his international collaborators “have discovered a cause of blood vessel damage in the brain that plays a role in Alzheimer’s disease-related dementia.” Clemson University researcher Feng Ding and his collaborators have identified a mechanism behind blood vessel damage in the brain that contributes to Alzheimer’s-related dementia. […]
April 16, 2024
Three members of Rao’s lab- Mihir Parekh, postdoctoral fellow, and graduate students Janak Basel and Nawraj Sapkota have discovered a way to optimize electrolytes to address the short circuiting and rapid capacity loss problems in sodium-ion batteries. These batteries are less expensive and more readily available than lithium-ion batteries. Read more here: Electrolyte research by […]
April 15, 2024
After analyzing more than 100 years of data, Clemson University astrophysicists, Pablo Penil del Campo, Marco Ajello, and Sagar Adhikari, may have found binary supermassive black holes. In our universe, galaxies collide with other galaxies and, in the process, the supermassive black holes at the core of the galaxes will form a pair. “Penil and his […]
April 14, 2024
VJ Mattison and J Jones, undergraduate students in the Physics and Astronomy Department, presented their research at the CU2MIP. CU2MIP is the Conference for Undergraduate Underrepresented Minorities in Physics. They presented their poster titled “Advancing Blazar and Galactic Source Identification with Multiwavelength and Machine Learning”.
March 19, 2024
Alex McDaniel is a postdoctoral fellow in the Clemson University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy and his collaborators search dwarf galaxies for dark matter “that self-annihilates into ordinary matter and gamma rays, a form of light at the highest energy levels. Dwarf galaxies are ideal for study because they are small, rich in dark matter […]
