TheDartmouth.com: Space is the “primary ingredient of physical reality,” and has the same basic properties “everywhere and every when,” said Frank Wilczek, 2004 Nobel laureate in physics, in the public lecture “What is Space?” on Thursday. MIT physicist Wilczek discussed historical and modern conceptions of the properties and composition of space to a packed Wilder auditorium of students, faculty, and members of the community.
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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