One of the primary mission goals of the Kepler space telescope
is to detect Earth-like terrestrial planets in the habitable zone
around Sun-like stars and characterize their occurrence rate.
Unfortunately, Earth-like planet candidates are at the...
Abstract: Recently a fruit fly brain was
reconstructed in electron microscopic detail. Tens of millions of
synapses were identified on over 100,000 neurons' entangled
branches, which would span a football field if unraveled end to
end. This "fly...
This study evaluates the performance and applicability of the
high-order Spectral-Difference (SD) method in astrophysical
contexts. We begin by analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of
SD relative to the widely used Finite-Volume (FV) methods...
Over the last century, the construction and discovery of the
Standard Model of particle physics has been one of the greatest
accomplishments in physics. To explore this new frontier, we built
larger and larger colliders utilizing the two charged...
What is common among a magnet, a halibut, a rack of laundry,
cubes of ice, superconductor, and the Higgs boson? The concept of
spontaneous symmetry breaking is a common theme for many natural
phenomena. I'll describe the basic concept and its...
