December 10st, 2023

Liz Magill, outgoing president of the University of Pennsylvania. A screenshot from the testimony she gave in Congress at the hearing where she was asked about her attitude to the anti-Semitic incidents on campus. Screenshot.

The president of the University of Pennsylvania resigned; "Answered legal answers to moral questions"

Magill testified along with two other presidents, Claudine Gay of Harvard and Sally Konerbluth of MIT, at a hearing held last week at the Congressional Education Committee in Washington. The three answered the committee members' question about whether it was a call to destroy
Technion campus. Source: Technion / Israel Institute of Technology, Wikimedia.

This year, most universities will open on 31/12/23; the Technion on 7/1/24

This is what the Council of Heads of the Research Universities announced this morning: "For the past few weeks, we have been working on detailed outlines for returning to studies, in which a diverse basket of adjustments will be used alongside finding individual solutions for everyone
The interference experiment

A new radical theory unites Einstein's theories of gravity with quantum mechanics

Two articles by University College London researchers have been published in Nature Communications and Physics Magazine in which the researchers offer an elegant way to reconcile the contradiction between the two theories, each of which affects on a different scale
The central region of the Milky Way galaxy as photographed by the Sobro telescope. The image shows many stars in a field of view that is about 0.4 light-years wide. The star S0-6 (in the blue circle), the subject of this study, is about 0.04 light-years from the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (in the green circle). Credit: Miyagi University of Education/NAOJ

Across Time and Space: A Mysterious Star's Epic Journey to the Center of the Milky Way

Research by an international team led by Shugo Nishiyama at Miyagi University shows that some of the stars closely circling the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy may have come from a greater distance than previously thought, completely