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11.15.23

Teraelectronvolt Astrophysics of Relativistic Jets
11.8.23

Undergraduate Research Symposium - Fall 2023
Nitrogen-9
10.27.23

Strong evidence found for new light isotope of nitrogen

10.20.23

Asteroid analyses by WashU researchers featured on journal cover
Mikhail Tikhonov
10.13.23

When predicting the function of microbial communities, simpler may be better

10.12.23

Exploring stellar hydrogen burning via muons and nuclei
Conceptual art connects the atomic underpinnings of the neutron-rich calcium-48 nucleus with the Crab Nebula, which has a neutron star at its heart. Zeros and ones depict the computational power needed to explore objects that differ in size by 18 orders o
10.4.23

Postdoctoral Quantum Monte Carlo Group Fellowship Opening

10.3.23

2023 Walker Distinguished Lectures will discuss bringing Mars samples back to Earth
NASA’s Galileo spacecraft caught Jupiter’s moon Io, the planet’s third-largest moon, undergoing a volcanic eruption. NASA/JPL/DLR
10.2.23

Io is a Volcanic hellscape of fire and ice: Let's go explore it

Student looking through a telescope in the Tyson Observatory
9.29.23

Tyson observatory is WashU’s dark sky site

9.26.23

Hunting supermassive black holes in the early Universe
Chandrayaan-3 and lunar rover on the moon's surface with Earth in the distance
9.22.23

Chandrayaan-3’s measurements of sulfur open the doors for lunar science and exploration

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