Physics News
First collisions at LHC!
Geneva, 23 November 2009. Today the LHC circulated two beams simultaneously for the first time, allowing the operators to test the synchronization of the beams and giving the experiments their first chance to look for proton-proton collisions. Beams were first tuned to produce collisions in the ATLAS detector, which recorded its first candidate for collisions at 14:22 this afternoon.
Published Date: November 23, 2009
Computational microscope peers into the working ribosome
Professor of Physics Klaus Schulten and graduate student Leonardo Trabuco and postdoctoral researcher James Gumbart are using the computer as a microscope to decipher the chemical details of ribosome function. Two new studies reveal in unprecedented detail how the ribosome interacts with other molecules to assemble new proteins and guide them toward their destinations in biological cells.
Published Date: November 23, 2009
Annual Physical Revue
The Physical Revue is the department's annual talent show. This year it will be held on Dec 9. In the past we have had musicians, dancers, actors, and even speed rubik's cube solvers.
Published Date: November 13, 2009
SSB shown to be dynamic, critical to DNA repair
UI researchers report that single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB), once thought to be a static player among the many molecules that interact with DNA, actually moves back and forth along single-stranded DNA, gradually allowing other proteins to repair, recombine, or replicate the strands
Published Date: October 21, 2009
Phillips named to KITP Advisory Board
Philip Phillips has been elected to the advisory board of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Published Date: October 10, 2009