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2020
December
December 21, 2020
In the natural sciences division of The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University, students and faculty explore the great unknowns of the Earth, our s
December 14, 2020
December 14, 2020
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the pr
December 14, 2020
The Department of Energy has awarded Arizona State University physics Assistant Professor Siddharth Karkare a $300,000 grant to develop more intense electron sources.
August
August 4, 2020
A U.S. Department of Energy award is empowering a new center at Arizona State University to create a more resilient and sustainable electricity grid with the use of next-generation materials.
July
July 23, 2020
Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, an esteemed alumnus of Arizona State University's Department of Physics, died July 18 at the age of 57.
June
June 1, 2020
For years, physicists have pondered the existence of gravitons — microscopic particles believed to transmit the gravitational force.
May
May 28, 2020
Diamond, a cutting material hard enough to get through almost anything, has long been cherished as a gemstone and a symbol of endurance.
May 14, 2020
For the first time, Arizona State University's Department of Physics hosted its annual Spring Awards and Recognition Ceremony as a virtual event, bringing together students, faculty, staff and alum
April
April 28, 2020
On Monday, May 11, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University will recognize its highest achieving students from the social scien
April 3, 2020
Three Arizona State University juniors who already are doing sophisticated research and presenting their work to national audiences have won Goldwater
March
March 30, 2020
Arizona State University has to date earned 15 National Science Foundation early faculty career awards for 2020. The awards total $9.5 million in funding for ASU researchers over five years.
March 25, 2020
Finding creative ways to keep the learning going while social distancing is no problem for the innovators at Arizona State University.
March 24, 2020
Just as a neurologist looks to a patient’s neural network for guidance in addressing neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s, researchers in the artificial intelli
March 2, 2020
Could studying cat behavior hold the secret to explaining biological physics? The idea certainly inspires Arizona State University's Fiona Naughton.
February
February 4, 2020
Protein separation, purification and concentration play a huge role in understanding and treating many serious diseases as well as the development of biological tools, including biosensors.
January
January 31, 2020
We live in a data-driven world. Thanks to the ever-connected climate made possible by the internet and mobile personal devices, we are both creators and insatiable consumers of information.
January 3, 2020
Flying saucers, little green men, alien abductions: They are the fabric of science fiction and the mysteries surrounding the cosmos.
2019
December
December 20, 2019
Arizona State University Professor Steve Pressé was recently awarded more than $2.5 million from the National Institutes of Health as pri
December 13, 2019
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November
November 18, 2019
To study the swiftness of biology — the protein chemistry behind every life function — scientists need to see molecules changing and interacting in unimaginably rapid time increments: tr
November 8, 2019
The ability to transform sunlight into energy is one of nature’s more remarkable feats.
November 6, 2019
Nobel laureate and physicist Richard Feynman wrote in 1965, “I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.” Quantum mechanics is now much better understood, and recently in th
October
October 31, 2019
Amid the zoo of biomolecules essential to life, enzymes are among the most vital.
October 15, 2019
Alexandra Navrotsky is back at Arizona State University and the ribbon has been cut to open the center where she will do her next great work.
October 14, 2019
A research team from the MIPT Center for Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Age-Related Diseases collaborated with colleagues from the U.S.,
October 1, 2019
Arizona State University marked a record first-year undergraduate cohort of nearly 14,00
September
September 30, 2019
At one time or another, we were all scientists. There is a reason a child’s first questions include: “What is it?”, “Why?” and “How?”
September 17, 2019
Deep within the subterranean confines of Building C — the latest addition to the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University — a pathbreaking machine is quietly taking shape.
August
August 22, 2019
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the largest and most diverse academic unit at Arizona State University.
August 21, 2019
ASU faculty members are pretty smart — and we don't just mean being experts on carbon c
August 14, 2019
In high school chemistry, we all learned about chemical reactions. But what brings two reacting molecules together?
August 13, 2019
Some of the world’s most accomplished scientific minds will converge on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus Nov.
July
July 15, 2019
There are a few things in life upon which we can rely, and one of those things is that Phoenix is hot in the summer. But how hot? It’s a more complicated question than you might think.
May
May 9, 2019
Announced today in Washington, D.C., by Blue Origin, Arizona State University has signed a memorandum of understanding with Blue Origin to send payloads to
May 8, 2019
Arizona State University empowers students to find their places, like the newsroom, the trading floor or the design studio.
May 2, 2019
Arizona State University physics sophomore Chase Hanson has been awarded an $8,000 fellowship to participate in the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s annual Computations Physics Student Summer Works
April
April 24, 2019
A third of all Americans have difficulty sleeping, and many of them turn to melatonin supplements to catch some Zs.
April 18, 2019
Editor's note: This story is being highlighted in ASU Now's year in review. Read more to
April 15, 2019
On Tuesday, May 7, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University will recognize its highest achieving students fro
April 4, 2019
Angelica Berner is one of 2019's new class of Brooke Owens Fellows.
March
March 15, 2019
For the first time, a team of scientists has isolated and measured the weak force between protons and neutrons within the nucleus of an atom.
March 13, 2019
Most often when we think of glass, we think of the panes in our windows and the dishes on our tables.
March 5, 2019
The Force is strong not only in "Star Wars" lore but also as a fundamental property in physics.
March 4, 2019
Among the zoo of biomolecules essential to life, proteins are the most startlingly varied and versatile.
March 4, 2019
Arizona State University graduate student Glenn Randall was recently awarded a research fellowship to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
February
February 11, 2019
Scientists from Arizona State University’s School of Molecular Sciences, in collaboration with colleagues from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York Cit
February 11, 2019
Since 1988, Arizona State University has participated in the national NASA Space Grant Program that is designed to provide STEM undergraduate and graduate student
January
January 31, 2019
When we think of life on Earth, we might think of individual examples ranging from animals to bacteria.
January 22, 2019
Arizona State University’s Professor Giovanna Ghirlanda and Assistant Professor Matthias Heyden, both of the School of Molecular Sciences, and Associate Professor Sara Vaiana of the Department of P
January 2, 2019
Jane Jackson was the first woman to receive her PhD in physics at Arizona State University. This month she celebrates 25 years working with ASU.
2018
December
December 14, 2018
Ernst Bauer, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in the Physics Department, has been recognized for his lifelong work and his invention of the low energy electron microscope, or LEEM.
December 13, 2018
December 6, 2018
Whether it’s the smartphone in your pocket or the Fitbit on your wrist, most of us don’t think twice about the working parts behind the products we use every day.
November
November 20, 2018
Joshua LaBaer, executive director of the Biodesign Institute, co-hosted a lively and innovative symposium Nov. 9, greeting the international guests in their native Chinese.
November 13, 2018
For Arizona State University’s Dmitry Matyushov, professor in the School of Molecular Sciences and the Department of Physics, years of studying how electrons make
October
October 11, 2018
Eight Arizona State University faculty resear
October 4, 2018
Biologists know a lot about how life works, but they are still figuring out the big questions of why life exists, why it takes various shapes and sizes and how life is able to amazingly adapt to fi
October 2, 2018
An international collaboration led by the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, or DESY, with participation from Arizona State University’s Biodesign Center for Applied Structural Discovery, the
September
September 27, 2018
This summer, Arizona State University organized an interdisciplinary team for the AI commentator track of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science
September 26, 2018
Antia Sanchez Botana grew up in the northwest of Spain and was drawn to physics at an early age. The subject appealed to her natural curiosity.
2017
June
June 8, 2017
Seventy high school physics and chemistry teachers enhanced their teaching skills at Arizona State University over the summer.
2016
June
June 3, 2016
Aditya Dhumuntarao, a Barrett, the Honors College student who will be graduating in May with dual bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and physics, has earned top honors in both majors.
2015
December
October
October 29, 2015
Seventy high school physics and chemistry teachers enhanced their teaching skills at Arizona State University over the summer.
October 16, 2015
Free electron lasers — powerful devices that can peer deep into molecular structure and the ultrafast timescales of chemistry — cost billions to build and are miles long, but an Arizona State Unive
May
May 29, 2015
Distinguished Research Professor Ernst Bauer has been selected as an International Fellow of the Japanese Society of Applied Physics.
