STEM Archives

Understanding the Big Bang: A New Way to Make Particle Soup

February 19, 2019

Scientists know how to recreate the hot, dense plasma that existed in the early milliseconds of our universe. Now, scientists at CUNY have shown that this early universe particle soup can be created using smaller nuclei than previously thought possible. Read more ›

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Under Your Skin and Into Your Gut

February 14, 2019

| Graduate School of Public Health

If something gets “under your skin” — in other words, if you’re bothered by something — does it also get into your gut? Read more ›

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This Isotope Grabs A Lot of Neutrons

February 11, 2019

| Hunter College, The Graduate Center

Scientists recently measured the neutron capture cross-section of the zirconium-88 isotope, and found it to be 100,000 times larger than expected. Read more ›

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Defending Darwin: Scientists Respond to Attack on Evolution

February 8, 2019

| John Jay College of Criminal Justice

The nation's top scientific journal has taken the rare step of publishing criticism of a new book whose author is on a “crusade to overturn evolution.” Read more ›

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SNAPSHOT: A Mathematical Route to Chaos

February 7, 2019

| LaGuardia Community College, Lehman College, Queens College, The Graduate Center

Researchers across CUNY have found a pattern that helps lead to the very complicated dynamic system of chaos — it involves cycle doubling and cycle merging. Read more ›

Hidden Signals Could Improve Cancer Scans

January 30, 2019

| Hunter College, The Graduate Center

Researchers at Hunter College have discovered a property of nanoparticles that could lead to improvements in cancer imaging methods. Read more ›

Acoustic Breakthrough: A New Way to Direct Sound

January 23, 2019

| The City College of New York, The Graduate Center

A team of CUNY physicists has developed a new material that conducts sound along its edges rather than through its bulk. Read more ›

SNAPSHOT: Quantum Entanglement

January 17, 2019

| City Tech, The Graduate Center

New ways to generate a quantum mechanical phenomenon called entanglement has the potential to improve supercomputing. Read more ›

SNAPSHOT: Forests and Snowpack

January 10, 2019

| Hunter College, The Graduate Center

Northern hardwood forests rely on snowfall, but as climate change decreases the amount of snow that falls each year, it will also likely decrease tree growth. Read more ›