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an underdog theory
You’ve probably heard of string theory, standard quantum mechanics, and general relativity. But pilot wave? No, never heard of that. The reason why goes back to the theory’s history.
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a gear head goes bio
His was not the usual path to a job fighting cancer. Stephen Foulger was a California dude, a surfer and gear head who built motorcycles.
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No, we don’t make eyeglasses.
This is what Eric Johnson has to explain, outside of work. But what he does make, with his team of savvy students, takes vision.
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aiming plasmas at cancer
Sung-O Kim came to COMSET to work on displays and wound up taking aim at cancer. Not that cancer is the lab’s only target. Kim and his students use plasmas to make all sorts of things.
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how to stop an atom
Sooner or later, technology’s pursuit of ever-smaller devices leads it down the rabbit hole and into the realm of quantum mechanics, where the hot dance of atoms makes assembling tiny structures iffy.
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well-dressed particles
As any teenager might guess, what a particle wears affects its game. Thompson Mefford’s lab turns out designer wardrobes for nanoparticles that can, for instance, target a receptor site or smuggle things inside a cell.
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spin-off science
In addition to the subcritical treatment of archeological iron, Clemson research on the Hunley archeology project has produced two other promising spin-off technologies.
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Ridding metal of salt
Museums throughout the world groan beneath the weight of iron artifacts recovered from the sea.
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What really happened to the Hunley?
It took two full days after the Housatonic’s decks were swimming with fish before the Confederacy’s top brass in Charleston asked the obvious question. Nearly 150 years later, it’s still the mystery that a dozen years of studying the Hunley’s bones has yet to solve.
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Setting the record straight
Much of what people believed about the Hunley turned out to be flat wrong. And here's what the team has discovered so far.
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