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06/25/24
Nature

How researchers navigate a PhD later in life

Personal circumstances and commitments often add to the pressures faced by older graduate students. Nature sought advice from some who have risen to the challenge.

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The freckled universe

05/06/25
Madeleine O’Keefe

There’s a new class of cosmic object in town. And it might just overturn our understanding of black holes and galaxy evolution.

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06/23/22

Particle Fever: Where are they now?

The 2013 documentary Particle Fever follows physicists from the start-up of the LHC through the discovery of the Higgs boson. Where are those physicists now?

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06/21/22

Reverberations of the Higgs

The discovery of the Higgs boson inspired young people around the world to pursue a career in science and technology.

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06/14/22

Connecting with physics

Professors find ways to show students that physics is more than just a set of laws and equations.

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05/17/22

The other physics problem

Black physicists say efforts to recruit and retain more Black students must concentrate on challenges they face at both Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Primarily White Institutions.

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