Dustin Clausen is giving a course at the IHES starting today on “Weil Anima” (or maybe “Weil-Moore Anima”. They’ve already put up video of the talk here (also available on Youtube). For an earlier talk by Clausen on this material …
Heat normally flows from hot to cold klyaksun/Shutterstock A forgotten cup of coffee will gradually cool down as its heat flows into the cooler surrounding air, but in the quantum realm, it appears this experience can be turned on its …
Dave Lloyd is in London today (Tuesday 13 January) for a visit to the Mathematics Department at UCL. He is giving a talk in the Applied Mathematics Seminar Series on “Spatially localised multi-dimensional patterns in fluid mechanics and biology“. The …
eLearning has come a long way from slide-after-slide lectures and passive video recordings. Today’s learners expect interactive, meaningful experiences, whether they’re upskilling at work or learning new software. That shift demands more than tools – it demands instructional strategies …
AIP’s oral history collection is a rich resource for anyone studying the history of physics. The collection, which started in the 1960s, is comprised of audio recordings detailing physicists’ academic and scientific careers. Most of our oral histories have accompanying …
Close-up data from Parker Solar Probe is helping scientists uncover how the solar wind is heated and accelerated, improving predictions of space weather and deepening insight into plasma behavior around the sun and beyond. Close-up measurements from NASA’s Parker Solar …
On January 15, 2026, Wikipedia turned 25, and that birthday demonstrates a simple, radical fact: a vast, volunteer-built reference work that stays free to read has become a foundational record of human knowledge and an infrastructure for how the internet …
What Is Standing Between You And Successful Employee Development? In a time of rapid change in the business world, skill gaps are growing faster than ever. New technologies arise, customer habits change, expectations continuously rise, and all employees can do …
For the first time, the new scope allowed physicists to observe terahertz “jiggles” in a superconducting fluid. You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light you shine at it: Optical light illuminates a material’s …
An international group of astronomers has identified a faraway planetary system that calls into question one of the most widely accepted ideas about how planets take shape. In most planetary systems observed across the Milky Way, scientists see the same …