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USC Dornsife has given four longstanding fields clearer academic identities, increasing their visibility in research and graduate education.
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The biophysicist and microbiologist will lead Carnegie’s Biosphere Sciences and Engineering division while maintaining a faculty appointment and ongoing research presence at USC Dornsife.
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As part of The Conversations’ “Curious Kids” series, a USC Dornsife astronomer explains how a runaway greenhouse effect has made the surface temperature of Venus hot enough to melt lead.
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A new study examines the motion of galaxy clusters separated by hundreds of millions of light-years to test how gravity weakens with distance and finds it behaves as expected, strengthening the case for dark matter.
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A transformative gift from Changho Chong and Santec USA Corporation strengthens graduate education and bioelectronic discovery at USC Dornsife.
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From Earth spinning on its axis and orbiting the Sun to it precessing like a top, lots of factors affect which stars you can see in the sky.
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USC Dornsife’s Vahe Peroomian provides a memorable class session with the help of a few hundred lengthy metal spikes, a cinderblock and a hammer.
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Nobel Prize in physics awarded for ultracold electronics research that launched a quantum technology
Three scientists discovered that even everyday circuits can act in strange quantum ways, leading to powerful new computers.
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A team from USC, UC Riverside and Carnegie Observatories embarks on an ambitious project to better understand our universe
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Microbes that filter methane from the ocean floor may hold new clues to addressing climate change, USC Dornsife researchers and collaborators find.
