The World of Thinking will make its U.S. premiere on Sunday,
October 18, 2020 during the thirteenth annual Imagine Science Film
Festival, presented by Pioneer Works. After the screening, IAS
Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed,
who stars in the film, joins...
Stephen Adler, Professor Emeritus
in the School of Natural Sciences, speaks with VICE News about a small, unexpected nudge experienced
by spacecraft during planetary flybys.
The seemingly insignificant boost of a few millimeters per
second was...
“The most spectacular element of the Penrose calculations is
that he showed that if you are close enough to a black hole, time
ends. It is the mirror image of the Big Bang.”
—Robbert Dijkgraaf, IAS Director and Leon Levy Professor
(Wall
Street...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what might the first
horizon-scale image of a black hole tell us? A new paper by
researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration,
which famously imaged M87’s central black hole, has provided
a...
Inverse spoke to Clifford Johnson, Member (1992–94)
in the School of Natural Sciences, on how he's battled
preconceived notions about race and physics, the kind of advice you
should be “happy to reject,” and why you shouldn't go ice skating
before...
IAS Director and Leon Levy Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf moderated a panel of Nobel Prize & Kavli Prize Laureates to discuss how curiosity-driven, blue-sky science can help address major challenges and prepare the world for an uncertain future post Covid-19.
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation has announced the recipients
of the 2021 Breakthrough and New Horizons Prizes, including current
Member Ahmed Almheiri (New
Horizons Prize in Physics) and former Member Martin Hairer (Breakthrough Prize
in...
When particle physicists try to model experiments, they confront
an impossible calculation — an infinitely long equation that lies
beyond the reach of modern mathematics. But threerecentpapers from a group of physicists led by
Sebastian
Mizera...
Malaysian astronomer Yuan-Sen
Ting, Member in the School of Natural Sciences, was recently
featured in an
interview with Sin Chew Daily, charting his growth
from a curious neophyte to pathbreaking astronomer.