Graduate Student Edition - Aug. 23, 2024
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Team receives Guinness Book of World Records award for most transparent material
Physics Professor and RASEI Fellow Ivan Smalyukh and his lab have set a Guinness world record for developing a transparent aerogel, which will boost thermal insulation in windows, increasing the overall energy efficiency of buildings.
Faculty Takes
Report shows 2023 marked by record-breaking greenhouse gas levels, extreme heat and high sea levels
The new international annual review of the world’s climate showed that 2023 was the warmest year on record. A ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· scientist weighs in on how the rising global greenhouse gas concentration is driving climate change and what we can do.
Research Updates
Consumers are more tolerant when algorithms drive price discrimination
Prices set by age and gender can be contentious. But the practice is seen as more fair if algorithms, not humans, manipulate pricing, research shows.
For medieval Iberian queens, love was a dangerous sickness
In a newly published history of the region’s female monarchs, a ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· scholar shows the connections between love, grief and madness.
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