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What the Brachiopods from Cincinnati Say About Tectonic Shift

What the Brachiopods from Cincinnati Say About Tectonic Shift

Did you know that North America was part of an ancient continent called Laurentia that sat near the equator and had a tropical climate? Or that the forerunner to the Appalachian Mountains—called the Taconic Mountains—were forced up about 450 million years ago through tectonic plate movement? As the Taconic Mountains […]

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August 26, 2013 at 9:21 amResearch

Frantz Catches a Glimpse of New State of Matter with NSF Grant

Frantz Catches a Glimpse of New State of Matter with NSF Grant

As matter “cooks” to 4 trillion degrees Celsius—250,000 times hotter than the center of the sun—protons and neutrons melt into a liquid plasma of quarks and gluons. This liquid may have been present at the start of the universe for a few microseconds. But Dr. Justin Frantz has an even […]

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July 23, 2013 at 8:14 pmNews Research

Algebra: The Fellowship of the Rings

Algebra: The Fellowship of the Rings

“The order of the factors does not alter the product,” everyone learns in elementary school. This property, the commutativity of multiplication, which is indeed true for integers and real numbers, is not true in other settings.  In fact, the emphasis at the Ohio University Center of Ring Theory and its […]

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July 15, 2013 at 12:43 pmNews Research