Science & Technology

Decades-old mystery of buckyballs cracked by team led by FSU, MagLab researchers

Published: July 31, 2012 | 1:06 am

After exploring for 25 years, scientists have solved the question of how the iconic family of caged-carbon molecules known as […]

How ocean currents affect global climate is a question oceanographer may be close to answering

Published: July 27, 2012 | 3:44 pm

Kevin Speer has a “new paradigm” for describing how the world’s oceans circulate — and with it he may help […]

Assistant professor honored for contributions to research in science education

Published: July 23, 2012 | 12:14 am

Victor Sampson, a faculty associate with the Florida State University Learning Systems Institute’s Florida Center for Research in Science, Technology, […]

Biologist’s research into Namibian ‘fairy circles’ published in prestigious journal

Published: July 19, 2012 | 9:45 am

Walter Tschinkel, a Florida State University professor of biological science, recently had a paper published in the prestigious journalPLoS Oneabout […]

Find out what all the fuss is about at free public presentation, ‘The Higgs Boson: Search and Discovery’

Published: July 16, 2012 | 11:28 pm

After decades of searching, scientists at the massive CERN particle physics laboratory in Switzerland announced on July 4 that they […]

FSU physicists among CERN researchers who discovered new particle

Published: July 6, 2012 | 5:06 pm

When physicists working on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced on July 4 that they observed a new […]

Physics/magnet lab researcher named fellow of American Physical Society

Published: June 15, 2012 | 10:38 am

A Florida State University physicist well known for his theoretical research on “phase transitions” —changes in the organization of matter […]

Study: Seeping Arctic methane has serious implications for Florida coastline

Published: June 14, 2012 | 2:28 pm

The ancient reserves of methane gas seeping from the melting Arctic ice cap told Jeff Chanton and fellow researchers what […]

University awards more than $100,000 to help bring innovative research to the marketplace

Published: June 5, 2012 | 3:39 pm

Six innovative research projects have been awarded a total of $110,000 by the Florida State University Research Foundation to help […]

Hurricane season is here, and FSU scientists predict a near-normal one

Published: June 5, 2012 | 11:50 am

Scientists at the Florida State University Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) have released their fourth annual Atlantic hurricane season […]