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About the author
Hi, I'm Leah Anderson
I’m currently working on my PhD in theoretical physics and this blog is a passion project of mine — an outlet where I explore scientific topics outside of my main research that intrigue me, with the hope of entertaining and informing a few curious readers along the way. My PhD research is in an exciting (fairly new) field of physics called active matter, which concerns ...