This summer, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory launched its 10-year astronomical survey to create the most comprehensive, cinematic record of the universe. Equipped with the largest digital camera ever built, this observatory, located in northern Chile, can capture in a single image an area 45 times the size of the moon. By tracking the night sky over 10 years, researchers hope to map the solar system and Milky Way galaxy in unprecedented detail, learn more about the nature of dark matter and dark energy, and advance science in ways we can’t even predict.
While thousands of people played a part in making the Rubin Observatory a reality, Tony Tyson played a formative role, acting initially as the facility’s founding director and now its chief scientist.
A new study appearing in the Journal of Chemical Education shows that these classes are an effective way of bolstering student confidence and sense of belonging in the sciences.
The study examined first-year and transfer student experiences in a 10-week long CURE class that teaches a laser-based imaging technique used to study protein aggregation. Protein aggregation occurs when misfolded proteins stick to one another. It’s associated with over 30 diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease and type II diabetes.
Goabaone Jaqueline Ramatlapeng vividly remembers when she would go without water from domestic pipes for days. For the last eight years, those experiences have driven her desire to help Botswana preserve its water resources as the country's first female hydrogeochemist.
From Aug. 31 to Sept. 4, the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter, or ICAM, will hold its annual meeting at UC Davis. The conference will include a variety of talks and roundtables featuring distinguished experts in soft, biological and quantum matter. Roundtable discussions will cover current topics in science and technology including artificial intelligence, or AI. The conference will close with a three-day workshop in the Physics Building titled “Novel Experimental Techqniues for Exploring Quantum Materials."