Rémy Dubertrand

• How is formed a poneytail? Why is it stable? see here.
• What is the best winning strategy in a poker tournament? Go here.
• One recent progress about the three body problem. This problem is very important as it is among the most important historical motivations to study chaos in modern science.
• Why is a computer not so good at beating a professional go player (in comparison with e.g. chess)? Go here and see how complex networks theory can help.
• What are the most important persons in the Wikipedia of your favourite language? See here how network theory can help to answer.
• Want to see an overview of major breakthroughs in 2014 in physics? Go here.
• Are mathematicians creative? Is a mathematical proof beautiful? Such (inspiring?) questions have been proposed in a short film series at the University of Bristol.
• The observation of the cosmic microwave backgrounds could lead to a better understanding of very high energy physics, following this article.
• Watch a fascinating movie about a droplet of oil, which is first bouncing at the surface of the fluid then even "walking" on it.
• A collection of fascinating pictures related to research in physics performed in 2015 can be seen here.
• 2015 marked the centennial of the discovery of the fundamental equations of general relativity (GR) by A. Einstein. At this occasion the American Physical Society decided to let everyone have access to breakthrough articles about GR thoughout the 20th century here.
• An hilarious parody of the Nobel prize is awarded every year: these are the unique IgNobel Prizes.
• Have a look at this "pot-pourri" related to 2015 trendy research in physics.
• Good bye 2015! Here is a selection of past research by the Editors of the American Physical Society.

• A recent article focuses on the ways how a balloon can burst. There seems to be only two following their results.
• New progress in artificial intelligence allows for a computer to beat a professional go player without handicap for the first time. This tantalising news coincides with a scientific article giving some details about the newly used algorithm.
• A new study focuses on the structure of Wikipedia network and how it is changed by collaborative efforts. The authors distinguish between four categories of built articles. Another interesting outcome of their study is a prediction that the online encyclopedia might become less and less democratic!
• One fascinating achievement of the beginning of the year is the first direct observation of gravitational waves by the LIGO experiment. The results are reported here with an explanation there .
• A recent study explains how one can use the nonlinear Schrödinger equation to simulate some mean field games, see a presentation of the results there .
• If one wants to go and find liquid water in space, a good option is to aim to Saturnus'Moon Enceladus. A recent model, described here , agreeing with the observational data, predicts a rocky core, an underground water ocean and an icy shell.
• You can play computer games to help modern science! This is the goal proposed by several groups in order to understand the structure of proteins, one of the most elementary brick of any living organism. The benefit from such ideas is discussed here . The games can be downloaded here, here (my favourite), or there. Set your record to become a life's architect!
• Complex networks have become a very important tool for several domains. A recent study looks at how the resilience of certain networks can be independent of its fine details, see here .
• One key ingredient to pursue a scientific career is very probably the inspiration. And physics can also be very inspirational! Here a physicist and a composition teacher wrote a piece of music inspired by pictures of viruses. A video of their performance at a (soft matter) physics conference can be watched here .
• You can find here a very pedagogical article about how the CERN particle collider in Switzerland has not (yet...) found any proof of supersymmetry. Yet it was supposed to be its main goal (after the discovery of Brout-Englert-Higgs'boson). The absence of measured hint of supersymmetry is called "the nightmare scenario".
• If you still hesitate which exoplanet you dream to visit first, it might be useful to look at this exhaustive list, updated and maintained by physicists.

• You can have a nice overview of different families of periodic orbits for the seminal three body problem here.
• A recent report lead by the University of Liège describes a system of exoplanets which can more favourably host life.
• Two experimental groups independently measured the effects of three photon interference as describd by this research highlight.