Chronicle of Higher Education: Jonathan Dorfan, a particle physicist and a former director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, will leave California later this summer to become the first president of the newly established Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. In a Q&A with the Chronicle‘s David McNeill, he explains what attracted him to the new job, which mainly entails building an international graduate research center from stratch.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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