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Recent observations of DG Taurus, a young star, reveal a smooth protoplanetary disk with no planet formation yet, suggesting it’s on the verge of this process. Findings show unexpected dust grain growth patterns, providing new insights into early planet formation stages. Credit: SciTechDaily.comAstronomers have gotten very good at spotting the signs of planet formation around stars. However, to fully grasp planet formation, it’s crucial to examine cases where this process hasn’t begun.Looking for something and not finding…

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How inclusive leadership can promote embeddedness in three organizational types. Credit: KyotoU/Tomoki Sekiguchi To create diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces, retaining and motivating valued employees from all social groups is the key. However, for managers and leaders, that is quite challenging. A research team led by…

Roman Jackiw (1939-2023), the Department of Physics’ Jerrold Zacharias chair and professor emeritus. His career spanned over five decades at MIT, where he made substantial contributions to quantum field theory and discovered various topological and geometric phenomena. He was renowned for his fundamental discoveries in quantum and classical field theories, with a significant achievement being the establishment of the presence of the Adler–Bell–Jackiw anomalies in quantum field theory. Credit: Photo courtesy of the…

In this illustration of an ultra-luminous X-ray source, two rivers of hot gas are pulled onto the surface of a neutron star. Strong magnetic fields, shown in green, may change the interaction of matter and light near neutron stars’ surface, increasing how bright they can become. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech<span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>NASA</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics…

Black holes come in two distinct types – small and supermassive. A group in the middle has long been hypothesized to exist, and now Hubble has found some strong evidence for one of these intermediate-mass black holes in a nearby star cluster.Stellar mass black holes are the most common ones, with masses from a few to a few dozen times that of the Sun. Then there’s a gigantic gap between them and the next type of black hole – supermassive monsters with the mass of millions or billions of Suns, which lurk at the center of…

Credit: Philipp Tur/Shutterstock Theoretical string theory in theoretical physics predicts the existence of parallel worlds (mirror symmetry prediction). These two worlds (A-side and B-side) are supposed to differ in terms of the six-dimensional spaces (A and B) hidden in each world. However, as these spaces are extremely similar and invisible, theoretically,…

Resonant vibrational strong-coupling can inhibit chemical reactions. Strong resonant coupling between cavity and vibrational modes can selectively inhibit a chemical reaction, i.e., preventing the appearance of products, that is present outside the cavity environment. Credit: © E. Ronca / C. SchäferScientists have discovered why chemical reactions are slowed down in mirrored cavities, where molecules interact with light. The team used Quantum-Electrodynamical Density-Functional Theory to find that the conditions inside…

By teaching a machine to learn a few quantum tricks, physicists have uncovered a strange new phase of hydrogen in solid form. While it's purely theoretical for now, the discovery could help us better understand the behavior of matter from the tiniest scales to the internal mechanics of the largest planets in the Universe.This new solid hydrogen phase discovered by an international team of researchers followed the model's presentation of hydrogen molecules under extreme conditions: to use a food analogy, their shape…

The Current10:59Critters face off in March Mammal MadnessRead transcribed audioIn the real world, a wolverine would probably never meet an emperor penguin in the wild.But in the March Mammal Madness tournament, not only do these magnificent creatures engage in combat, they do so on a beach in Oregon — a habitat neither animal is familiar with."People were really, really excited," said the contest's creator Katie Hinde, a biological anthropologist at Arizona State University.Created in 2013, the bracket pits 64 different…