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World Cup 2022: Qatar’s frantic countdown to a football tournament full...

Staff Writer - October 12, 2022

Simon Chadwick, SKEMA Business School When Denmark play at the men’s Fifa World Cup in Qatar this winter, their...

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FIFA’s suspension of Russia is a rarity – but one that...

Staff Writer - March 4, 2022

Stefan Szymanski, University of Michigan The decision by FIFA on Feb. 28, 2022, to suspend Russia from international competition...

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Our team of physicists inadvertently generated the shortest X-ray pulses ever observed

Staff Writer - October 15, 2025

Uwe Bergmann, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Thomas Linker, Stanford University X-ray beams aren’t used just by doctors to see...

Flux ropes (simulated, right) are structures made up of magnetic field lines wrapping around each other like a rope, that look similar to tornadoes on Earth. NOAA, Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti and Chip Manchester

‘Space tornadoes’ could cause geomagnetic storms – but these phenomena, spun...

October 13, 2025

Prof. Jie Huang stands with the MOF-based breathalyzer his lab developed with support from the NIH. Michael Pierce/Missouri S&T

Our engineering team is making versatile, tiny sensors from the Nobel-winning...

October 11, 2025

The quantum behavior of superconducting circuits like the small white square above was a major discovery. K. Cicak and R. Simmonds/NIST

Nobel Prize in physics awarded for ultracold electronics research that launched...

October 9, 2025

The world’s largest geothermal power station is under construction in Utah. Business Wire via AP

Geothermal energy has huge potential to generate clean power – including...

October 8, 2025