May 1, 2026 Pollen trap at UW Discover Days

We hosted dozens of 4th – 8th grade students during Discovery Days, to play around with our dust trap. This planar Paul trap (technology invented here at UW) traps lycopodium moss spores in precisely the same way single atomic ions are trapped for quantum computing.


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