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Por qué no cae el asteroide 2024 YR4 sobre nosotros (y otros que tal vez lo hagan)

Nuevo vídeo de divulgación en el canal de YouTube del IFT.
El asteroide 2024 YR4 hizo saltar las alarmas cuando su probabilidad de impacto con la Tierra superó el 1%. Pero, ¿cómo se determinó finalmente que no representaba un peligro?

Stellar streams from dwarf galaxies could be key to unveiling the nature of dark matter


A new study led by researchers from IFT and UAM is the first to propose searching for dark matter signals in stellar streams originating from dwarf galaxies.

Nuevo Vídeo: ¿Se ha descubierto el toponium?

¿Se ha encontrado evidencia del toponium en el LHC? La colaboración CMS ha encontrado indicios significativos de su existencia, pero… ¿por qué ATLAS no ve lo mismo?

The #YoFísicaEnPódcast Challenge Brings Together 130 Participants to Celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

The content stood out for their originality and variety of formats, including interviews, dramatizations, and songs.

A new study explores the large-scale distribution of galaxies through Interpretable Machine Learning

·       Using innovative techniques to make Artificial Intelligence more transparent, this study published in Physical Review Letters unveils how neural networks learn from the large-scale distribution of galaxies—demystifying a process that was once considered a "black box."

Video: Why Do We Live in 4 DIMENSIONS? (No More, No Less)

A new outreach video on the IFT YouTube channel.

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Understanding the mechanism of thermalization in gauge theories is one of the challenging problems of contemporary research.
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The feebly-interacting massive particle (FIMP) paradigm offers an intriguingsolution to the dark matter (DM) puzzle, with FIMPs produced via the
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