Physics
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A Wobble From Mars Could Be Sign Of Dark Matter, MIT Study Finds
Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be new way to detect passing dark matter. Jennifer Chu | MIT Newshttps://news.mit.edu/2024/mars-wobble-could-be-dark-matter-mit-study-finds-0917 In a new study, MIT physicists propose that if most of the dark matter in the universe is made up of microscopic primordial black holes — an idea first proposed in…
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MIT Researchers Discover The Universe’s Oldest Stars In Our Own Galactic Backyard
Jennifer Chu | MIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-researchers-discover-universes-oldest-stars-in-galactic-backyard-0514) MIT researchers, including several undergraduate students, have discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe, and they happen to live in our own galactic neighborhood. The team spotted the stars in the Milky Way’s “halo” — the cloud of stars that envelopes the entire main galactic disk. Based on the…
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Model Innovators: How Digital Twins Are Making Industries More Efficient
From Taiwan to Germany, companies are seeing the benefits of physics-informed models and simulations with NVIDIA Modulus and Omniverse. A manufacturing plant near Hsinchu, Taiwan’s Silicon Valley, is among facilities worldwide boosting energy efficiency with AI-enabled digital twins. A virtual model can help streamline operations, maximizing throughput for its physical counterpart, say engineers at Wistron, a global…
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Generative AI Could Offer A Faster Way To Test Theories Of How The Universe Works
IBM and CERN are using time-series transformers to model particle collisions at the world’s largest collider; it’s part of a larger goal to turn raw observational data into actionable insights. Ordinary matter gives shape to everything we know of the world, but it represents just 5% of the universe. The rest is made up of…
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Three MIT Alumni Graduate From NASA Astronaut Training
Marcos Berríos ’06, Christina Birch PhD ’15, and Christopher Williams PhD ’12, now eligible for spaceflight assignments, encourage MIT students to apply for the next astronaut class. Sandi Miller | Department of PhysicsMIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2024/three-mit-alumni-graduate-nasa-astronaut-training-0307) “It’s been a wild ride,” says Christopher Williams PhD ’12, moments after he received his astronaut pin, signifying graduation into the NASA astronaut corps.…