For the first time ever, astronomers at The University of New Mexico say they’ve been able to observe and measure the orbital motion between two supermassive black holes hundreds of millions of light years from Earth – a discovery more than a decade in the making. UNM Department of Physics & Astronomy graduate student Karishma…
Physicist Discovers Strange Forces Acting on Nanoparticles
A new scientific paper published, in part, by a University of New Mexico physicist is shedding light on a strange force impacting particles at the smallest level of the material world. The discovery, published in Physical Review Letters, was made by an international team of researchers lead by UNM Assistant Professor Alejandro Manjavacas in the Department…
A Peek at Cell Structures’ Disordered Proteins
Biomedical researchers have engineered the first examples of biomimetic structures composed from a mysterious class of proteins that lack any sort of internal structure. In a paper titled, “Programming molecular self-assembly of intrinsically disordered proteins containing sequences of low complexity,” and published on Jan. 30 in the journal Nature Chemistry, researchers from Duke University, the…
