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Credits: Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT, stock imagery Previous image Next image In the spring of 1970, colleges across the country erupted with student protests in response to the Vietnam War and the National Guard’s shooting of student demonstrators at Kent State University. At the University of Chicago, where Frank Wilczek was an undergraduate, regularly scheduled classes were “improvised and semivoluntary” amid the turmoil, as he recalls. It was durin...

January 12, 2021 New work agrees with older research suggesting the oldest light in the universe – from the most distant galaxy yet known – started its journey toward us 13.77 billion years ago. View larger. | In 2013, the Planck space telescope released the most detailed map to date of the cosmic microwave background, the relic radiation from the Big Bang. It was the mission’s first all-sky picture of the oldest light in our universe, imprinted on the sky when it was just 380,000 years ...

In his book, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality, MIT physicist and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek distills scientists understanding of the physical world into 10 philosophical themes, using the fundamental theories of physics to reframe ideas of space, time, and our place in the universe.

Martinus “Tini” Veltman, who shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his former student Gerardus ‘t Hooft, passed away on 4 January at the age of 89. A regular visitor to CERN since the early 1960s, Veltman served on the Scientific Policy Committee from 1976 to 1982, where he was a staunch supporter of the CERN model for intergovernmental research, contributing much to the scientific direction of the Laboratory. It is through his contributions to the Standard Model, our current descrip...

Jack Steinberger obituary Frank Close © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Karl Schoendorfer/Rex/Shutterstock Jack Steinberger, who has died aged 99, was one of the three winners of the Nobel prize for physics in 1988 for their work with neutrinos and the discovery of the muon-neutrino. This research did much to advance understanding of fundamental particles. The reality of the ghostly neutrino was not confirmed experimentally until 1956, but back in 1949, working at the U...

The Dutch theoretical physicist won the Nobel for major contributions to the standard model of particle physics. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Michigan.

Cosmological Mysteries - UH Physicists are Asking Big Questions about the Universe January 7, 2021 $1.65 Million Grant Will Fund Projects in Neutrino Oscillation You could be forgiven if you haven’t thought much about neutrinos. The subatomic particles are produced by the sun and by stars, moving unnoticed through rock, metal, air – even through people. Lisa Koerner, a particle physicist at UH, is leading a $1.65 million project related to the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, known as ...

music: “Seven League Boots” by Zoë Keating] Krista Tippett, host: “Having tasted beauty at the heart of the world, we hunger for more.” These are words of the Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek in his book, A Beautiful Question. It’s a winsome, joyful meditation on the question: Does the world embody beautiful ideas? — probing the world, by way of science, as a work of art. This physicist reminds us that time and space, mystery and order, are so much stranger and more generous than we ...

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Science 2020: 5 events that could change the future of technology - and mankind itself Issued on: 31/12/2020 - 13:24 The Long March-5 Y5 rocket, carrying the Change-5 lunar probe, takes off from Wenchang Space Launch Center, China on November 24. REUTERS - TINGSHU WANG 6 min If 2020 will always be remembered for the emergence and global spread of Covid-19, there were also some significant scientific milestones that will change th...