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FSU chemistry graduate students chosen to organize Kasha symposium for national conference

Published: August 12, 2020 | 12:24 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

Michael Kasha joined the Florida State faculty in 1951, where he served as a teacher, researcher and mentor until his passing in 2013 at the age of 92.

A group of Florida State University graduate students have been selected to present “Illuminating the Field of Photophysics: 100 Years of Michael Kasha,” a symposium at the American Chemical Society’s national meeting, celebrating the former FSU professor who was one of the world’s foremost photochemists. It is the first time FSU students have been chosen […]

FSU Panama City announces St. Andrew and St. Joseph Bays Estuary Program partnership

Published: August 4, 2020 | 1:48 pm | Posted in: News, Science & Technology

St. Joseph Bay Aerial View. Photo courtesy of Darryl Boudreau

Florida State University and Bay County are partnering to establish an estuary program to help provide for the long-term protection of St. Andrew and St. Joseph Bays and develop a plan of action for these valuable resources. Housed on the FSU Panama City campus, the St. Andrew and St. Joseph Bays Estuary Program will be […]

FSU geologists publish new findings on carbonate melts in Earth’s mantle

Published: August 3, 2020 | 3:10 pm | Posted in: News, Science & Technology

Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano in Tanzania, a source of carbonate-rich magma. Photo by Tobias Fischer, University of New Mexico, 2005 / Courtesy of the National Science Foundation.

Geologists from Florida State University’s Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science have discovered how carbon-rich molten rock in the Earth’s upper mantle might affect the movement of seismic waves. The new research was coauthored by EOAS Associate Professor of Geology Mainak Mookherjee and postdoctoral researcher Suraj Bajgain. Findings from the study were published in […]

Engineering researchers harness wind data to help meet energy needs in Florida

Published: July 30, 2020 | 12:07 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

An example of a tall wind turbine, like the ones that emerging technologies might make economically viable in Florida and other parts of the Southeast. Courtesy of Electrek.

Florida is one of several states in the Southeast where wind energy is virtually nonexistent, which is one reason wind farms have not been an economically viable energy source in the region. But a new study from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering shows how upcoming technological advances could make wind energy a hot commodity in […]

FSU biologist uses genome database to investigate cancer cells

Published: July 29, 2020 | 12:32 pm | Posted in: News, Science & Technology

Florida State University researchers are contributing to the the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, a project to better understand how the human genome works. Courtesy of the National Institutes of Health.

Florida State University Professor of Biological Science David Gilbert is using the latest information about the human genome as a guide to better understand cancer. Gilbert and his FSU colleagues were part of a team that compared different cancer cell types to a database of normal human cells using a new method he developed that […]

FSU biochemists shed light on how cells move resources

Published: July 23, 2020 | 3:20 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

The structure of the clathrin cage that forms around a vesicle, a fluid-filled package that moves materials between compartments in cells. Florida State University researchers determined this cage structure and what determines its shape and size in a paper published in Science Advances. Courtesy of Scott Stagg

Florida State University researchers have new insight into the tiny packages that cells use to move molecules, a structure that is key to cellular metabolism, drug delivery and more. Their research uncovered more about the proteins that form the outer structure of those cellular packages. The work was published in the journal Science Advances. “Just […]

Bright spots could be key to securing the future of declining coral reefs

Published: July 21, 2020 | 9:03 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

Schoolmaster snappers congregating around the soft corals on the fringing reefs of Bonaire. (Credit: Alexandra Dubel)

In recent decades, the decline of living hard coral on reefs around the world has raised concerns among marine experts. For years, the presumption was that decline signaled that an entire reef’s future was threatened. A study by Florida State University researchers shows that might not always be the case. While a complement of healthy coral is still preferred, dead […]

MagLab awarded $1.5M by U.S. Department of Energy to develop better superconductors

Published: July 17, 2020 | 3:16 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

Research scientists Shreyas Balachandran, left, and William Starch draw lengths of niobium-tin superconducting wire at the Applied Superconductivity Center at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. A new grant of $1.5 million will allow the group to continue this research. Photo: Stephen Bilenky

A grant from the U.S. Department of Energy will further research that will help make the next generation of high-energy particle accelerators. The U.S. Department of Energy awarded scientists at the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory $1.5 million to develop more efficient, robust superconductors that could lead to powerful particle accelerators and […]

FSU teams up with Panhandle teachers to host online nuclear science camp

Published: July 17, 2020 | 1:05 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

From her home on a laptop, a camper controls a gamma-ray spectrometer located in a classroom on the FSU-PC campus. That feat of technology involved a surprisingly large number of IT staff at both the Panama City and Tallahassee campuses and took advantage of FSU's Virtual Lab technology.

Florida State University Physics Professor Paul Cottle is a devoted advocate of the need for physics education in K-12 schools. That’s why he’s been teaming up with science teachers over the past three summers to organize the Nuclear Medicine and Science Camp (NMSC) for middle and high school students from Panhandle counties. But how do […]

FSU biologist part of team that discovered new record for highest-living mammal

Published: July 17, 2020 | 11:18 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

A yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse captured near the summit of the Llullaillaco volcano on the border of Chile and Argentina. Credit: Marcial Quiroga-Carmona, Austral University of Chile

It was a surprising thing to see on the otherwise lifeless peak of a South American volcano — a mouse, specifically a yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse, or Phyllotis xanthopygus, scurrying among the rocks on the summit. The find was especially startling because the mouse was living at an elevation of 22,100 feet, a higher elevation than […]

FSU scientists discover heavy element chemistry can change at high pressures

Published: July 15, 2020 | 11:26 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt, Gregory R. Choppin Professor of Chemistry.

New research shows that one of the heaviest known elements can be manipulated to a greater degree than previously thought, potentially paving the way for new strategies to recycle nuclear fuel and better long-term storage of radioactive elements. An international team of researchers has demonstrated how curium — element 96 in the periodic table and […]

FSU researchers find sun and rain transform asphalt binder into potentially toxic compounds

Published: July 13, 2020 | 2:14 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

Martha Chacón-Patiño, left, and Sydney Niles are part of team of chemists studying how asphalt binder in roads weathers over time. Credit: Stephen Bilenky/National MagLab

A dramatic oil spill, such as the Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico a decade ago, can dominate headlines for months while scientists, policymakers and the public fret over what happens to all that oil in the environment. However, far less attention is paid to the fate of a petroleum product that has […]

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