The AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives is thrilled to announce that the Ronald E. Mickens Collection on African-American Physicists is now available on our digital repository. This is one of our most requested collections, and we are pleased to …
Reactions ranged from disappointment to enthusiasm On Feb. 18, MIT faculty gathered in Huntington Hall (10-250) for the first faculty meeting of 2026, where they discussed the recent proposal released by the Task Force on the Undergraduate Academic Program (TFUAP). …
📖Read Time: 9 minutes 📊Readability: Advanced 📐 (Technical knowledge needed) 🔖Core Topics: stochastic, probability, time, dt, tile Stochastic calculus has come a long way since Robert Brown described the motion of pollen through a microscope in 1827. It’s now a …
Havana Syndrome is a mysterious ailment that has affected at least 1,500 people – the vast majority of them U.S. diplomats or government officials. Symptoms include headaches, dizziness, and blurred vision, all of which are symptoms of being targeted by …
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Cepheid variable stars pulsate in brightness over regular periods. That’s one reason astronomers use them as a standard candle to judge distances–even for stars well outside our galaxy. In this image, researchers display a simulation of convection inside a Cepheid …
I’ve been trying to write up some new ideas about Wick rotation for a long time now, keep getting stuck as it becomes clear at various points that I haven’t gotten to the bottom of what is going on. To …
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 …