LSU in the News
Associated Press: Recently discovered mineral named for LSU professor
A Louisiana State University geology professor now has a scientific namesake — a newly discovered variety of tourmaline. Barbara Dutrow said she's surprised and thrilled by the honor.
Discover: Quantum Computers Finally Beat Supercomputers in 2019
In his 2013 book, Schrödinger’s Killer App, Louisiana State University theoretical physicist Jonathan Dowling predicted what he called “super exponential growth.” He was right. Back in May, during Google’s Quantum Spring Symposium, computer engineer Hartmut Neven reported the company’s quantum computing chip had been gaining power at breakneck speed.
Space: The Decade in Astronomy: These Space Discoveries Shaped the 2010s
As the 2010s come to a close, it's time to revisit how some of the biggest space science stories shaped the decade. From the rise of TESS to flybys of Pluto and Cassini's dramatic demise, the past ten years have produced some incredible science. Here are some of our favorite discoveries from the decade.
The Chronicle of Higher Education: To Reach Gen-Z Students, Colleges Meet Them Where They Are — on TikTok
Corinne Richter, social-media coordinator at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, began taking TikTok's potential seriously a couple of years ago. She saw an opportunity to create a unique touch point with prospective students — to build up the university’s brand as something relatable.
National Geographic: These are the top 20 scientific discoveries of the decade
In 1916, Albert Einstein proposed that when objects with enough mass accelerate, they can sometimes create waves that move through the fabric of space and time like ripples on a pond’s surface. Though Einstein later doubted their existence, these spacetime wrinkles—called gravitational waves—are a key prediction of relativity, and the search for them captivated researchers for decades. Though compelling hints of the waves first emerged in the 1970s, nobody directly detected them until 2015, when the U.S.-based observatory LIGO felt the aftershock of a distant collision between two black holes. The discovery, announced in 2016, opened up a new way to “hear” the cosmos.
Nature: Climate change splits two penguin species into winners and losers
Populations of a picky species of Antarctic penguin have plummeted as a less-fussy species has prospered, showing that even closely related species respond differently to the effects of climate change.
Associated Press: Movie ‘Frozen’ inspires atmospheric modeling classwork
The Disney animated musical “Frozen” provided an assignment for a Louisiana State University class in modeling the marine atmosphere.