College of Science
Hackathons May Accelerate Scientific Discovery, Study Finds
From interdisciplinary teams to multi-institutional partnerships, collaborations in research have become commonplace. However, these interactions are often made up of siloed teams...
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Community Research Collaboration Creates Better System for Treating Trauma Patients
Trauma, or any kind of severe physical injury, continues to be today’s leading cause of death for people 46 and younger in the United States. In 2007, doctors Scott Thomas and...
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Notre Dame Physicists Explore How Well We Can Know the Past
Most research within the field of physics focuses on predicting the future. But how rapidly does our knowledge of the past deteriorate? Consider a sugar cube dissolving in water....
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Notre Dame Researchers Develop ‘Fraudbuster’ System to Reduce Fraud in Auto Insurance Market
In 2012, fraud cost U.S. auto insurers 7.7 billion dollars in excess payments. Although the rate of fraudulent policies for most insurers was 5 percent, that rate for nonstandard...
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Designing a Better Superconductor with Geometric Frustration
Superconductors contain tiny tornadoes of supercurrent, called vortex filaments, that create resistance when they move. This affects the way superconductors carry a current. But a...
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New Molecules Created at Notre Dame to Reduce Cost, Environmental Impact of Mining Precious Metals
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have invented a new class of molecules that can be used to simplify the process used for capturing precious metals including gold,...
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Breakthrough Discovery Links Two of the Heaviest Known Particles
The two heaviest known particles — the Higgs boson and the top quark — have finally been linked, thanks to a discovery based on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)...
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Notre Dame Researcher Addresses Global Health Challenges in St. Joseph County
Indiana is in the bottom 10 states for infant mortality with a 2016 infant mortality rate (IMR) of 7.5. This means more than seven children die out of every 1,000 births....
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Dare to Navigate a Complex World
Bats are creatures feared by many humans, but definitely not Laura Kloepper. Laura has dedicated her research to investigating how these animals use their sonar in large groups...
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Dare to Imagine Curing Cancer
More than 100 years ago, New York physician William Coley pioneered methods that relied on the body’s immune system to treat cancer. Although quickly surpassed by advances in...
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Fluid Dynamics May Play Key Role in Evolution of Cooperation
Believe it or not — it’s in our nature to cooperate with one another, even when cheating may be more profitable. Social cooperation is common in every scale of life, from the...
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Hunting for Planets with TESS
Justin Crepp, the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Physics and director of ND’s Engineering and Design Core Facility, talks about the recent TESS space launch and Notre Dame’s...
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