For billions of years, Earthly life has flourished in a reassuring 24-hour cycle of light and darkness. Over the past century, however, urban skies have grown increasingly clouded with light pollution. The excess light disrupts circadian rhythms, poses safety and health risks, wastes energy, and exacts a sad aesthetic toll as well. For humans, the […]
WSU physicists have a new laboratory in outer space. On May 20, the Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL), a remotely operated research platform, blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) where it will be used by researchers to probe quantum phenomena that would be impossible to observe on Earth. Professor Peter Engels and graduate student […]
Recipient of the WSU Crimson Spirit Award for October 2017 is Tom Busch, a fiscal analyst in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Nominators praised him for noteworthy extra efforts and consistently exceeding expectations, and commended his in-depth knowledge of policies and procedures. Busch is the “go-to” person for help and advice for grant proposal […]