Recently, my coworkers and I put out a preprint “Classical solution of the FeMo-cofactor model to chemical accuracy and its implications’’ (Zhai et al. 2026). It is a bit unusual to write commentary on one’s own scientific article. However, in this …
What is space, really? That’s one of the biggest questions in science. According to a pair of researchers from the Perimeter Institute, the answer to that is: a quasicrystal. What is a quasicrystal, and how is space a quasicrystal? Let’s …
Stripes of Enceladus: a jigsaw puzzle – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2026 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Source link
When hurricanes hit coasts, they bring with them incredible storm surge, which puts buildings right in the middle of ocean waves. To understand how to better protect against those conditions, engineers use facilities like the Directional Wave Basin to create …
The last few postings here have been about rather technical problems with the conventional understanding of how spacetime symmetries and Wick rotation work in the Standard Model. These were written partly because I think these problems deserve to be better …
A recent search for “Niels Bohr Library” in ProQuest’s Dissertations & Theses Global database returned 160 results, with the earliest citations dating to 1966—just four years after the library’s founding. While not comprehensive, this set of dissertations and theses offers …
A. Neil Pappalardo ‘64, co-founder of MEDITECH (Medical Information Technology, Inc.) and a leading supporter of the MIT Department of Physics for decades, died on January 27, 2026, at age 83. He leaves behind his wife of 61 years, Jane; …
📖Read Time: 4 minutes 📊Readability: Advanced 📐 (Technical knowledge needed) 🔖Core Topics: triangle, solution, rule, ai, pf Introduction This article is written by way of a reference for my longstanding PF colleague and prolific poster of challenging Maths/geometry problems @chwala …
We are now at an exciting point in our process of developing quantum computers and understanding their computational power: It has been demonstrated that quantum computers can outperform classical ones (if you buy my argument from Parts 1 and 2 …
Using our observations and predictions based off of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, physicists are pretty sure that there’s a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. But according to a new paper, that prediction might be …
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