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The new cooperative agreement between NNSA and the University builds on the laboratory’s significant scientific productivity and contributions to national security efforts.

Led by researchers from the University of Rochester, scientists from the international collaboration MINERvA have, for the first time, used a beam of hard-to-detect neutrinos to investigate the structure of protons.

Federal funding brings together experts to chart a viable path to realizing fusion energy as a clean power source.

“We’ve combined the idea of a memristor and a phase-change device in a way that can go beyond the limitations of either device,” says Stephen Wu, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and of physics.

A team from the Department of Physics and Astronomy has applied the theory of semantic information to a realistic model capturing attributes of living systems—and found the critical point where information matters for survival.

A team of researchers including John Nichol, an associate professor of physics, has won a grant from the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research to address challenges posed by silicon spin qubits.

Rochester Professor Nicholas Bigelow helped develop experiments conducted at NASA’s Cold Atom Lab to probe the fundamental nature of the world around us.

A National Institute of Justice fellowship allows Rochester graduate student You “Neil” Zhang to develop novel defenses against deepfake scams.

Applying a recent hypothesis about how the brain operates during sleep could improve the lifelong learning abilities of artificial intelligence.

The new supercomputer enables a four-fold increase in high-performance computing to simulate high-energy-density physics and inertial confinement fusion experiments.