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One of presenters at the Physics Slam, graduate student Byron Daniels from the Parno Lab, discussed the KATRIN project. The project investigates the mass of the neutrino, an elementary particle sometimes referred to as a “ghost particle.” The KATRIN experiment released a report recently that the upper mass of neutrinos is 0.8 electron volts. The above image depicts a spectrometer used in the KATRIN project.

CMU hosts first-ever Physics Slam

For the first time ever, on Feb. 17, the physics department at Carnegie Mellon held the Physics Slam, a gathering of affiliated undergraduate, faculty,...

Sea urchins are a common research subject for studying embryonic development, as it is easy to obtain embryos from them and their embryos develop relatively quickly compared to humans and other organisms.

Gene regulatory network competition in urchin embryos

For a long time, purple sea urchins — also known as Strongylocentrotus purpuratus — have been the model organism for studying embryonic development, a...

In the above diagram of a cell, the region in red represents the endoplasmic reticulum.

Understanding Atlastin-1 and its dynamics

It’s no secret that the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a crucial organelle. In most cells, the ER is involved in post-translational modification of proteins,...

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