In July 1954, Enrico Fermi took a beautiful and possibly quite dangerous trip to the French Alps as part of a group from Les Houches School of Physics . The rest of this post will take a closer look at …
Annual award honors early-career researchers for creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments. Eight MIT faculty and 22 additional MIT alumni are among 126 early-career researchers honored with 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships honor exceptional researchers …
📖Read Time: 18 minutes 📊Readability: Advanced 📐 (Technical knowledge needed) 🔖Core Topics: topology, sets, topological, open, set Abstract Topology as a branch of mathematics is a bracket that encompasses many different parts of mathematics. It is sometimes even difficult to …
Welcome back to: Has quantum advantage been achieved? In Part 1 of this mini-series on quantum advantage demonstrations, I told you about the idea of random circuit sampling (RCS) and the experimental implementations thereof. In this post, Part 2 out …
Einstein’s general relativity predicts singularities, such as those found inside black holes. These are places where spacetime ends and the curvature becomes infinitely large. This isn’t just mathematically uncomfortable, it also causes problems when you try to combine gravity with …
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Ski jumping is in the news this Olympic cycle after rumors that male competitors may be cheating in order to wear larger suits. In particular, the suggestion is that male athletes are injecting fillers into their genitals before their pre-season …
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 …
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 …
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 …