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UC Santa Barbara physics researcher Skyler Palatnik
Designing lightweight optics to detect signs of life beyond our solar system
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Matt Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Laboratory
The outer detector of the LZ dark matter experiment
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Jeff Liang
Gary Horowitz
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Artist's rendering of a young star surrounded by its protoplanetary disk, with elements furnished by NASA's Hubble Telescope
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M. Franco / C. Casey / COSMOS-Web collaboration
Six images of galaxies taken from nearly 800,000, from upper left to lower right: the present-day universe, and 3, 4, 8, 9 and 10 billion years ago
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Lyn Photography
Physicist and computer science assistant professor Murphy Yuezhen Niu
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Used with permission from Microsoft
Majorana 1, the eight-qubit topological quantum processor unveiled at Microsoft Station Q's 2025 conference
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Fangzhou ZhaoI, Van de Walle group
Concept illustration of non-radiative recombination, in which electron-hole interaction at a defect in the atomic structure results in heat, rather than light, being emitted. Jim Speck will use his Vannevar Bush Award to advance understanding of the physics of such interactions.
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Jeff Liang
Professors Andrew Jayich, left, and Jon Schuller
