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10/29/2026

"Dr. Luca Comisso, an associate research scientist in Columbia University’s Departments of Astronomy and Physics and the Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, and Felipe A. Asenjo of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile, recently found a new way of looking at Einstein’s equations that reveals a striking analogy with “magnetic reconnection” in plasmas, which occurs when magnetic field lines break and reconnect, powering explosive phenomena such as solar flares."
https://news.columbia.edu/news/can-gravitational-fields-break-and-reconnect-einsteins-equations-suggest-they-can

10/29/2026

"The Bucolic Columbia Campus You May Never Have Heard Of
Columbia University’s Nevis Laboratories have been a hub of particle physics research since the 1950s."
https://news.columbia.edu/news/bucolic-columbia-campus-you-may-never-have-heard

10/28/2026

The The New York Times asked 100 scientists to give them the big unanswered questions in their fields. You may already have contemplated some of these puzzles: Did time have a beginning? What preceded the Big Bang? Why do we sleep? Which animals dream?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/science/100-unanswered-questions-science.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GlE.5D_b.i2oJ8MTuOKV-&smid=url-share

10/28/2026

Professors of and .tyson Neil de Grasse Tyson of in the new StarTalk miniseries, In Theory!
https://jannalevin.substack.com/p/neil-de-grasse-tyson-and-i-rap-about
Columbia University Astronomy Department

10/27/2026

"Bound states in the continuum observed in a solid material"
https://physicsworld.com/a/bound-states-in-the-continuum-observed-in-a-solid-material/

10/27/2026

Farewell kind friend!

NASA has officially ended the mission of its Swift Observatory, after a private satellite failed to meet up with the aging spacecraft in orbit.

10/27/2026

Don't forget to attend tomorrow's Theory Seminar with Princeton's Shinsei Ryu! 2:10pm in the Pupin Theory Center (8th floor)

10/27/2026

We've got a double-feature tomorrow! Come to our HEP Seminar with Stanford's Dr. Tanvi Wamorkar at 12pm in Pupin 705 and then head upstairs to attend our Theory Seminar at 2:10pm with Princeton's Dr. Shensei Ryu! Visit our website for more details and to check out other upcoming speakers

10/27/2026

Professor Elena Aprile of received the 2021 Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society “for her pioneering research on the properties of liquid xenon for radiation detection and her contribution to search for dark matter”, having proved essential to the construction of the XENON experiment at the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratories."

https://www.infn.it/newsletter-eu/pdf/NEWSL_INFN_84_ing_12.pdf

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