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A team of researchers at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) discovered that cobalt-70 isotopes form different nuclear shapes when their energy levels differ only slightly. 

Shuo Zhang and her group led two studies that shed new light on where cosmic rays might have come from.

Michigan State University has contributed to research revealing Vesta's interior structure is more uniform than previously thought.

Adami is being recognized for significant contributions across multiple scientific fields including evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.

“This year’s class of fellows are the embodiment of scientific excellence and service to our communities,” said Sudip Parikh, AAAS chief executive officer and executive publisher of the Science family of journals

Three Michigan State University College of Natural Science  students have earned the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.

A new collaboration among Michigan State University, Arizona State University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will seek to answer how planets are formed with the help of a powerful telescope and high-performance computers.  

Laura Chomiuk received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, or PECASE, the highest honor given to scientists by the U.S. government early in their careers.

Michigan State University professor is committed to solving one of Earth’s most pressing problems — access to clean water — through applied physics.

Johannes Pollanen didn’t set out to become an entrepreneur. Originally a physicist studying superfluids, Pollanen first turned his attention to quantum computing over a decade ago at Caltech. Building a marketable quantum computer wasn’t on his radar.

Our sun is essentially a searing hot sphere of gas. Its mix of primarily hydrogen and helium can reach temperatures between 10,000 and 3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit on its surface and its atmosphere’s outermost layer. Because of that heat, the blazing orb constantly oozes a stream of plasma, made up of charged subatomic particles — mainly protons and electrons. The sun’s gravity can’t contain them because they hold so much energy as heat, so they drift away into space as solar wind. Understanding how charged particles as solar wind interact with other transient eruptions of energy from the sun can help scientists study cosmic rays emitted in supernova explosions. 

Research led by Michigan State University’s College of Natural Science has uncovered seven new dark comets in our solar system.

For the last decade, the MSU Observatory Research Program has provided undergraduate and graduate students alike with real-world research experience and helped them to decide if astrophysics is the right career path.