Dava Sobel (center) with AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives staff in front of the book display. [L-R: Corinne Mona, Melaine Mueller, Allison Rein, Karina Cooper] Will Thomas At the end of May, noted history of science author Dava Sobel …
Wyslouch remains the director of the Bates Research and Engineering Center and will continue research on heavy ion collisions. After more than 10 years at the helm of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS), Boleslaw “Bolek” Wyslouch will step down …
📖Read Time: 22 minutes 📊Readability: Advanced 📐 (Technical knowledge needed) 🔖Core Topics: seriesfunctionsfunctionnumbersvalue Introduction Series play a decisive role in many branches of mathematics. They accompanied mathematical developments from Zeno of Elea (##5##-th century BC) and Archimedes of Syracuse (##3##-th …
A scientist in Florence can’t avoid bumping into colleagues. When visiting the Renaissance’s birthplace last summer, I ran into a fellow physicist even on a Saturday morning. I was wandering around the Uffizi Gallery, a museum blessed with some of …
Since the early days of quantum physics, some scientists have believed that there’s a link between quantum mechanics and consciousness. While most researchers don’t think this idea holds water, a few have published papers about how phosphate molecules in the …
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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 …