DESI Collaboration to Receive 2026 Berkeley Prize
The DESI collaboration is being honored with the 2026 Berkeley prize for their work creating the largest 3D map of the universe, enabling the study of the effects of dark energy over cosmic time, and particularly for precise measurements of baryon acoustic...
De Sitter Space: The Universe’s Inevitable Future?
New video in the YouTube series #IFTResponde. Miguel Montero, researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, invites you in this video to explore the fascinating de Sitter space — a theoretical proposal that could today hold the key to understanding dark energy...
Toponium: el CERN consigue la foto imposible de la partícula más efímera
Autor: Juan Antonio Aguilar Saavedra para The Conversation. En marzo de 2024, el experimento CMS del CERN sorprendió al mundo científico con la observación de una entidad esquiva y exótica: el toponium, una forma efímera y extrema de materia. Poco después, otro...
The physics of Photoprotection
New video in the #IFTResponde YouTube series. In the summer our exposition to the sun increases, and so does the associated UV radiation risks. In this video, Rosa Sandá Seoane, postdoctoral investigator from the IFT, exposes the principles which explain why certain...