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Arun Bansil
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Aerial view of a tennis court during a match, showing the grass court from above with two players positioned on opposite sides. The court is surrounded by packed stadium seats filled with spectators.

Friction, speed and surprise: What sets Wimbledon’s grass courts apart from clay, hard courts

How does the iconic Centre Court lawn compare to the gritty red clay courts of the French Open?
Kin Chung Fong looking through a microscope, seen through a tube.

Northeastern scientists help detect axion quasiparticles, offering new clues to dark matter

Scientists observe axion quasiparticles in a lab for the first time, offering new insights into dark matter and future quantum technologies.
Crescent moon.

What time is it on the moon? We may soon know, thanks to NASA project

Scientists are looking to establish a time zone on the moon. Time functions slightly differently on the moon, a Northeastern physicist says.
Students and faculty standing on stage at Blackman auditorium.

14th annual Academic Honors Convocation recognizes Northeastern students and faculty for their scholarship, research, leadership and innovation

“This event only started 14 years ago, but I can assure you that it will continue for another 125 years,” President Joseph E. Aoun said.
The carbon fiber debris from the Titan submersible.

Physicist explains why the Titan submersible’s carbon fiber was ineffective

Arun Bansil, university distinguished professor of physics at Northeastern, provides a brief overview (and history) of the use of carbon-fiber materials in deep-sea watercraft.
oceangate titan submersible underwater

Physicist explains how Titan’s ‘catastrophic implosion’ might have happened–and what it meant for those on board

“The occupants would not have experienced pain or realized what hit them,” says Arun Bansil, university distinguished professor of physics at Northeastern.
headshot of Wei-Chi Chiu

Breakthrough discovery: Northeastern researchers pull back the quantum curtain on ‘Weyl fermions’

The researchers propose a new framework to explain how particles called Weyl fermions interact in certain materials. The findings, published in Nature Communications earlier this month, look beyond the framework of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity to probe these elusive particles.
Moire example image

Physicists may have accidentally discovered a new state of matter. The possibilities are endless.

“Imagination is the limit,” says Swastik Kar, an associate professor of physics. “It could change the way we can detect and communicate signals. It could change the way we can sense things and the storage of information, and possibilities that we may not have even thought of yet.”
Arun Bansil, a theoretical physicist at Northeastern, has discovered new properties in the chemical element bismuth that could prevent supercomputers from frying and enable the production of low power electronics. Photo by iStock

This exotic crystal is fueling the quantum revolution

Arun Bansil, University Distinguished Professor of Physics at Northeastern, has discovered new properties in the chemical element bismuth that could prevent supercomputers from frying and enable the production of low power electronics.

Six Northeastern professors named to list of ‘highly cited researchers’ around the globe

Treating cancer and other diseases in novel ways. Discovering a new antibiotic. Understanding why people become successful. These groundbreaking research achievements are among the accomplishments of six faculty members who have been recognized for the high rate at which their papers have been cited by other researchers.