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  • In memoriam: Richard S. Thompson, 83
  • Clifford V. Johnson Selected for AIP’s 2022 Andrew Gemant Award
  • 844-NEED-SCI
  • Life on the Holodeck
  • The Universe as we know it
  • The latest Planck results reveal first stars were born late
  • Planck/BICEPT paper on Promordial Gravitational Waves
  • How many water molecules does it take to change an acid?
  • Vitaly Kresin and group have paper highlighted on APS as a Focus story
  • Professor El-Naggar’s NASA Astrobiology Institute Director’s Seminar
  • Dr. Däppen presenting at the 2014 APS Meeting
  • In memoriam: Darrell Judge, 79
  • Bacterial Nanowires Not Pili
  • Ph.D student Stephen Pinkerton Wins Poster Contest
  • Is String Interaction the Origin of Quantum Mechanics?
  • Alumni awarded by the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
  • Suffocating cells for science
  • Bacterial nanowires not what scientists thought they were
  • A couple of Live Wires in Physics and Biology
  • Planck reveals new results in the study of cosmology
  • SETI Director appointed Adjunct Professor
  • Physics student first USC recipient of Churchill Scholarship
  • Early Astrophysics from Planck
  • Microbial Hair: It’s Electric 
  • Seasons in the Sun
  • Space Probe Peers Into Dark Cosmos
  • Stephan Haas wins 2009-2010 Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • Moh El-Naggar receives Air Force Young Investigator Research Program Award
  • Scientist Takes a Quantum Leap
  • Priya Vashishta wins 2009 Associates Award for Creativity in Research 
  • Aiichiro Nakano elected as Fellow of the American Physical Society
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  • A Robust Career for this USC College Alumnus
  • Bring Back the Science
  • Black Holes: Eternal Prisons No More
  • In Memoriam: Kazumi Maki, 72
  • A Two-Time Universe?
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