Physics and Astronomy Department
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Geology’s Asmaa Boujibar gets new $300,000 NASA grant to research the building blocks of planet Mercury | 2024-04-23 | ||
Projects build research capacity and pipeline for regional institutions | A collaboration between Los Alamos scientist Jianxin Zhu and Armin Rahmani, associate professor at Western Washington University, will explore the emergent properties and interaction of Majorana fermions using high-performance computing and noisy intermediate-scale quantum… |
2023-08-31 | |
NASA MESSENGER mission data to measure chromium on Mercury | Co-author Asmaa Boujibar, of Western Washington University, who performed the modeling described in the paper, added: “Our model, based on laboratory experiments, confirms that the majority of chromium in Mercury is concentrated within its core. Due to the unique composition and… |
2023-07-10 | |
Ask the dinosaurs: We aren’t ready for an asteroid ‘Big One’ | It is essential that we support efforts by NASA and others to detect NEOs, characterize them and prepare for a rapid response if we need to deflect one. We in the Pacific Northwest are no more susceptible to an asteroid impact than anyone else — but we may be better suited to understand the… |
2023-04-17 | |
CCNY-based team scripts breakthrough quantum algorithm | ity College of New York physicist Pouyan Ghaemi and his research team are claiming significant progress in using quantum computers to study and predict how the state of a large number of interacting quantum particles evolves over… |
2022-07-27 | |
WWU Astronomy & Planetary Science professors share the science behind the new images from the James Webb Space Telescope | 2022-07-21 | ||
Janelle Leger appointed to fixed term as dean of WWU College of Science and Engineering | 2022-06-21 | ||
WWU's Spanel Planetarium to host 'To the Moon' on March 11 | 2022-03-03 | ||
WWU's Regina Barber joins NPR's 'Short Wave' as its first scientist-in-residence | 2022-01-24 | ||
WWU's Melissa Rice co-publishes new article in 'Science' about the initial discoveries of the Mars Perseverance rover | 2021-10-11 |