Nobel Prizes Embrace AI Innovation
You’re going to want to sit down for this one. The 2024 Nobel Prize committee just did something unprecedented–that is, two groups of AI researchers took home the respective Physics…
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Disillusionment With Academia: Why Leave the Research World?
The beauty of physics research, outside of the publication reviews, conferences, symposiums, and talks, lies in its fundamentality. To describe any phenomenon, whether it be something as simple as the…
P. Chem Comes to IMSA!
The Physical Chemistry of Materials, colloquially known as P. Chem, is a new course being offered at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) for the 2023–2024 school year. Current…
Limits Set: Vector-Like Quark Pair Production
In mid-September of 2022, physicists from the CMS Collaboration at CERN reported new lower limits on vector-like top \((\text{T})\) and bottom \((\text{B})\) quarks. The analysis offers the strongest identified limits…
Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough
Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California recently had a breakthrough with nuclear fusion, sparking excitement in many. On December 5th of 2022, a nuclear fusion reaction was…
Performance Upgrades: HL-LHC Plans
After physicists at CERN restarted the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for its Run 3 set of data collection in the summer of 2022, new analyses dependent on high-mass mother (decay…