A ‘mini moon’ joins Earth’s orbit: Brown astronomers explain
The small asteroid will orbit Earth for two months.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks."

Brown University Professor of Physics Dmitri Feldman was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in the Division of Condensed Matter Physics for 2024.

On Monday, September 30, the Physics Department faculty hosted University Communications Manager & Writer for the Physical Sciences, Juan Siliezar, for Physics Writer-in-Residence Day, a day of 1:1 faculty meetings and lab tours.

A decade after the discovery of the “amplituhedron,” physicists have excavated more of the timeless geometry underlying the standard picture of how particles move.