#BlackInPhysics week 2021
Burning back burnout
PhD student Garrett Williams describes how mentorship, outreach and introspection have helped him survive as a Black physicist
Donna Strickland on her life-changing Nobel prize, previewing #BlackInPhysics week, nuclear fusion in stars
In this episode we also chat about how to avoid professional burnout
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Materials long maligned as less efficient than their hybrid cousins in fact have fewer loss mechanisms, say researchers
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Hypothesis testing methods improve direct imaging
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New model highlights the competing processes behind precarious features of melting ice
Small-world networks regulate transcription in cells
Simulations of a bead-and-spring model of DNA reveal how the 3D structure of the genome determines gene expression in cells
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Topological feature could prove useful for dissipationless spintronics
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