OMAHA -- The black-hinged brace on Robbie Hummel's right knee offers a constant reminder of the two anterior cruciate ligament tears that kept him sidelined for Purdue's last two N.C.A.A. tournament appearances. Though he returned this season to make first-team all-Big Ten, it took Hummel until February to get his shooting legs under him. Sunday...
OMAHA -- Robbie Hummel wasn't dazzling in his first N.C.A.A. tournament action in three years, and Purdue squandered a 13-point second-half lead. But Terone Johnson and Lewis Jackson made sure Hummel and the Boilermakers earned a chance to play one more game. Johnson scored 21 points on 9-for-13 shooting, and Jackson sank two key free throws with...
Australian and American physicists have built a working transistor from a single phosphorus atom embedded in a silicon crystal. The group of physicists, based at the University of New South Wales and Purdue University, said they had laid the groundwork for a futuristic quantum computer that might one day function in a nanoscale world and would be...