Years ago, photographer Ernie Button discovered an intriguing stain left behind in his whiskey glass after the last drops evaporated. That discovery led both to beautiful images and an entire scientific paper analyzing how the alcohol, surfactants, and polymers in …
Warning: if you follow this blog, you’ve heard this many times before, so can move on to something more interesting now. There’s a video conversation between Brian Greene and Lenny Susskind from last week here. At 44:02, Susskind has this …
We are kicking off the 2026 World Cup at the Niels Bohr Library & Archives by bringing a different element of our namesake’s career to center field. While the name Bohr invokes indisputable eminence in the field of physics, it …
Ranking at the top for the 15th year in a row, the Institute also places first in 12 subject areas. MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which were announced today. This …
📖Read Time: 9 minutes 📊Readability: Accessible (Clear & approachable) 🔖Core Topics: noiseaudiokhzsnrdb Introduction First, we need some background in Digital Signals. This can be mathematically quite advanced, but since I would like this article to be accessible to as wide …
In the past months, several nuclear fusion startup have pivoted to selling other technologies and some have silently shifted their timelines. Source link
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The first surprise of this afternoon was finally finding an informed and sensible discussion of the implications of AI agents for hep-th research, in the form of a twitter thread by stringking42069. The second was learning from the twitter thread …
The AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives is transitioning away from its International Catalog of Sources, an online catalog which strove to describe all primary sources on the history of physics at institutions across the world, towards a catalog focused …
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