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six Tufts students at work on a blackboard in a university classroom

National Science Foundation Grant Awarded to Cross-disciplinary Research Team

A Growing Convergence Research grant will support an interdisciplinary team in helping STEM students to reframe and engage with ambiguity, uncertainty, and confusion

The Ocean Gives Up Its Secrets

In a Tell Me More podcast episode, faculty and alumni plumb the depths to better know our watery planet, from sea-level rise to shipwrecks to giant squid

A baseball traveling toward home plate with pitcher out of focus in the background. A physics professor explains how everything from curve balls to sweepers work

How Do Curve Balls, Cutters, Sinkers, and Sweepers Work?

It’s all about the spin that the pitcher puts on the baseball, explains a physics professor

A young woman with bright lights behind her. Tufts astronomy graduate student Olivia Gaunt leads high schoolers in projects researching rare stellar formations

Olivia Gaunt’s Reach for the Stars

This astronomy graduate student leads high schoolers in researching rare stellar formations

Artist’s interpretation of an array of pulsars being affected by gravitational ripples produced by a supermassive black hole binary in a distant galaxy.

Tufts’ Ken Olum Searches for Evidence of Cosmic Strings in a Background of Gravitational Waves

Professor of Physics and Astronomy Ken Olum is one of a large team of collaborators in the NANOGrav project – a huge 15 year undertaking that has uncovered a background of gravitational waves coursing through our galaxy

Three Questions About Quantum Computing and Secure Communications

As the Biden administration warns about the possibility of widely used cryptographic systems being broken, Professor of Physics and Astronomy Peter Love weighs the risks