Professor, ECE, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida - Emerging Devices & Integrated Systems, Quantum Sci. & Eng., Nanotech, Adv. Mat.
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Philip Feng retweeted
On October 31, 1936, a small group of Caltech students, researchers, and rocket enthusiasts tested rocket propulsion in the Arroyo Seco—and set in motion the story of JPL. 🚀
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Philip Feng retweeted
Today is a mathematical date we won't see again for 78 years.
10/24/26
10² + 24² = 26²
It's called a Pythagorean Triple Day. There are infinitely many Pythagorean triples, but only 12 dates this century satisfy the equation.Today is the last.
Next one: March 4, 2105.
Philip Feng retweeted
On this day 280 years ago, Princeton University was officially chartered.
Hip! Hip! Happy Birthday to the Best Ol' Place of All!
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NASA JPL Looks to Next 90 Years of Innovation, Exploration nasa.gov/centers-and-facilit… via @NASA
Philip Feng retweeted
Fields medallist Shing-Tung Yau is leading a new alliance of eight research institutions, launched at Tsinghua on October 11 and bringing together roughly 1,000 researchers.
Its goals include discovering conjectures, formalizing proofs and developing specialized mathematical AI.
The work is beginning. One goal deserves particular attention: making the reasoning easier to inspect. A mathematical tool becomes far more valuable when researchers can examine how it reaches its conclusions.
Philip Feng retweeted
Learn more about the 2026 prize in economic sciences:
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Philip Feng retweeted
Ultraprecise clocks that use transitions in atomic nuclei to keep time show promise as a next-generation time standard and for probing fundamental physics
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Philip Feng retweeted
"Your mind wants to move, and the best thing a work of art can do is take your mind with it, moving somewhere you never expected to move."
- 2026 literature laureate Anne Carson on the power of art.
Explore our newest laureate's literary collection: nobelprize.org/prizes/litera…
ALT A quote on a dark background reads, "The best thing a work of art can do is take your mind with it." Below, it says "Anne Carson, 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature." The Nobel Prize logo is in the bottom right corner.
Philip Feng retweeted
"A person is a prism, you know, and concepts just flash from this to that from day to day."
2026 literature laureate Anne Carson's writing often lives in the spaces between languages, ideas and eras.
In a illuminating conversation, Carson reflects on creativity, translation, attention and what it means to "follow something down to where it gets true."
Read the full interview: theparisreview.org/blog/2024…
ALT Anne Carson standing against a white brick wall, wearing a suit with a vest and red glasses. Next to her is a red panel with a quote: "A person is a prism, you know, and concepts just flash from this to that from day to day." Below the quote, it mentions Anne Carson and the Nobel Prize in Literature 2026.
Philip Feng retweeted
Caltech and AIM Build AI Platform with Mathematicians for Mathematicians
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Learn more about the 2026 #NobelPrize in Chemistry
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Philip Feng retweeted
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.”
Philip Feng retweeted
Scientists have long known that the cosmos contains natural particle accelerators, which fire out particles with energies up a million times more than can be achieved in laboratories on Earth. Much about these sources is mysterious: what are they, where are they, and what are the main processes inside them?
Neutrinos with extremely high energies are created in the same environments as other types of particles. However, unlike other particles, neutrinos reach us without changing direction or losing energy. This means they can provide information that is not available in any other way.
Newly awarded physics laureate Francis Halzen first presented his vision for capturing neutrinos at the South Pole in 1988. When a neutrino collides with an atomic nucleus, it produces a flash of light that can be tracked by sensors in the clear glacial ice. The South Pole’s ice has many advantages, as it is free from various types of interference and the area is geologically stable, with no earthquakes. Halzen and his idea soon gained the support of other researchers and, just a few years later, preliminary testing was conducted on sensors in ice.
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Philip Feng retweeted
Cosmic neutrinos with extremely high energies are very rare, so an enormous volume of ice is needed to observe an adequate number of collisions. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory covers an entire cubic kilometre and was finished in 2011. Researchers soon discovered the first high-energy neutrinos and, a few years later, could publish their discovery of neutrinos that must originate far outside our solar system. The search for the universe’s neutrino sources could begin in earnest.
Francis Halzen has received the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics for his decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.
Philip Feng retweeted
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”
Philip Feng retweeted
To understand how the brain forms memories, feelings and behaviours has long been a dream for researchers.
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries leading to optogenetics, which makes it possible to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells in a living brain.
This method is now being used in laboratories around the world to reveal the brain’s mysteries.
Philip Feng retweeted
Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – awarded the 2026 medicine prize – discovered a remarkable protein, channelrhodopsin, in a single-celled alga.
Hegemann wondered how Chlamydomonas, a single-celled alga, is able to swim towards a light source. In the early 2000s, he and Georg Nagel discovered channelrhodopsin, an algal protein with unique properties, found on the surface of the cell. When it is illuminated by blue light, a channel opens through the protein. Charged ions then flow into the cell, creating an electrical impulse. They found that regardless of which cell they put the protein in, those cells became light sensitive.
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
Philip Feng retweeted
Major discoveries—including the role of DNA, the biological basis of psychology, and the human genome—missed out on the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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ALT Six biology breakthroughs that should have won a Nobel Prize—but didn’t