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Diesel’s engine: the 1893 project and the working engine of 1897
Rudolf Diesel’s 1893 project developed into a working engine in 1897. Compression ignition became a lasting engineering approach, but the museum’s reported 26.2% efficiency belongs to 1897, not to the initial prototype.
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AlphaFold AI crowned with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Demis Hassabis and John Jumper receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing AlphaFold 2, a major turning point for structural biology.
The Nobel Prize in Physics rewards the statistical architectures of AI
John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for landmark discoveries linking statistical mechanics to the architecture of neural networks.
LIGO — First Detection of Gravitational Waves
On September 14, 2015, at 09:50:45 UTC, LIGO detected signal GW150914: the merger of two black holes (36 + 29 M☉) 1.3 billion light-years away. Measured length variation: 4 × 10⁻¹⁸ m — one thousandth the diameter of a proton.