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Prof. Laura Mersini-Houghton Featured on BBC Radio 4 “Inside Science”
Listen to the interview here: BBC Radio 4 – BBC Inside Science, Multiverses, melting glaciers and what you can tell from the noise of someone peeing From the BBC Radio 4 website: The Multiverse Laura Mersini-Houghton is an internationally renowned … Continued
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Congratulations to Prof. Laura Mersini-Houghton on her Washington Post Review
Prof. Mersini-Houghton’s book “Before the Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and what lies beyond” was reviewed by The Washington Post. Read the article here This excerpt sums it up: ”[A] riveting tour of the cosmos from one of … Continued
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A Popular Science Book By a Professor from Our Own Department, Based on Her Work Exploring the Origin of the Universe
Before the Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond, by Laura Mersini-Houghton, published July 19th, 2022. “A revolutionary new account of our universe’s creation—and a breathtaking exploration of the landscape from which we sprang—from one of … Continued
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UNC grad-students at TUNL probe nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics using Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence
Nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF) experiments using linearly polarized γ-ray beams allow for the measurement of level energies and widths, spins, parities, multipolarity mixing ratios, and branching ratios, and, therefore, represent an important tool for probing nuclear structure. These properties are … Continued