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Honoring the Best and Brightest
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (151+ words) Timothy White, Director, Army Manufacturing Technology, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology, speaks at Department of War Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Program's Personnel Honor Awards at the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes, August 10, 2026. The ceremony…...
Werner Heisenberg nearly failed his 1923 PhD oral because he could not explain the resolving power of a microscope—or even how a storage battery worked. Experimental physicist Wilhelm Wien wanted to fail him, but his mentor Arnold Sommerfeld defended his brilliance as a theorist, securing a mediocre cum laude—four years before Heisenberg used a microscope thought experiment to explain the uncertainty principle.
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (921+ words) Heisenberg's near-failed 1923 doctorate exposed his weakness in experimental physics, then the microscope returned in his 1927 explanation of quantum uncertainty....
The Further Ig Nobel Adventures of The Harts
3+ week, 2+ day ago (99+ words) Improbable Research The Harts come to the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony every year, journeying from their home in Florida to be very much a part of things. This year they will make the journey from Florida to Zurich, Switzerland for…...
Rice’s Huang Named SPIE Fellow for Contributions to Optics and Photonics
4+ week, 2+ day ago (368+ words) Shengxi Huang, an associate professor in Rice University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elected a fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, placing her among a select group of researchers recognized for advancing technologies…...
Graduate Student Proves the Fractal Uncertainty Principle
1+ mon, 14+ hour ago (1532+ words) Ada Zejun Shen/Quanta Magazine At the quantum scale, tiny particles behave in bizarre ways. One reason for this is the uncertainty principle, which says that the more you know about where a quantum particle is, the less you can…...
Haim Sompolinsky wins top physics prize
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (424+ words) The Harvard Scientist’s pioneering brain research was recognized with the Dirac Medal Aug 11, 2026 / Read time: 3 minutes Haim Sompolinsky, a Harvard theoretical physicist and neuroscientist, has won the Dirac Medal and Prize, one of the highest honors in physics. Also announced…...
Claude’s attempt at the Riemann Hypothesis
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (497+ words) The Riemann Zeta Function and How it Relates to the actual Riemann Hypothesis The Riemann hypothesis makes the claim that “all nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function have a real part equal to 1/2”. The Riemann zeta function is linked…...
Belgian Nobel laureate Fran??ois Englert, mind behind the 'God particle', dies aged 93
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (16+ words) Belgian Nobel laureate François Englert, mind behind the 'God particle', dies aged 93 The Brussels Times...
Why PSI No Longer Has Physics Articles | Principia Scientific, Intl.
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1060+ words) Written by Herb Rose on August 4, 2026. Posted in Current News This publication is named after Sir Isaac Newton’s “Philospie Principia Natualis Mathematica”, considered one of the cornerstones of modern physics but of late it has been devoid of articles on…...
UChicago Prof. Yu Deng receives Fields Medal, highest honor in mathematics
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1695+ words) The video is still processing. Please wait a few minutes. Newswise — University of Chicago mathematics Prof. Yu Deng has received the Fields Medal for his contributions toward placing the laws of physics on a rigorous mathematical foundation. The Fields Medal,…...