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Three successful women physicists in India – Kaveri Hukku, Asima Pradhan and Urbasi Sinha – talk to Shobha Shukla and Matin Durrani about their triumphs, the challenges they’ve faced and their attempts to build a more equitable future. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/how-women-...
How women physicists in India are breaking down barriers and shaping the future – Physics WorldKaveri Hukku, Asima Pradhan and Urbasi Sinha describe their journeys as physicists in Indiaphysicsworld.comThe connection between black hole physics and thermodynamics just got even deeper, and physicists are still trying to figure out why. 🧪⚛️ 🔭 physicsworld.com/a/physicists...
Physicists find unexpected connection between black hole mergers and thermodynamics – Physics WorldProperties of a merger remnant can be predicted using a simple entropy-maximization principlephysicsworld.comNuclei keep fusing in metal foils as incident energy falls. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/h3rh50ZvQVi
Nuclear fusion persists at ultralow energies inside metal foils – Physics WorldExperiment suggests the environment matters when deuterium fusesow.lyIf you’ve ever kept a drink cool on a hot summer day by placing it inside a frozen sleeve, you’ll understand the appeal of phase change materials. But what if you want to cool your drink more quickly and evenly? These researchers have the answers. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/heat-trans...
Heat-transfer fins give phase change materials a boost – Physics WorldModelling points the way towards optimal designs for systems that store and release heatphysicsworld.comA team of physicists has harnessed machine learning to develop a non-invasive technique for detecting tuberculosis directly from human breath. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/ai-sniffs-...
AI sniffs out tuberculosis in breath’s chemical signature – Physics WorldMachine learning decodes the complex chemical signatures in human breath to deliver rapid, non-invasive tuberculosis diagnosesphysicsworld.comAntonia Seymour, who is chief executive of IOP Publishing, talks about challenges and opportunities in scientific publishing. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/y6Yu50ZuIXo
How scholarly publishers are safeguarding trust in science – Physics WorldAntonia Seymour of IOP Publishing is our podcast guestow.lyVisitors have been snapping up tickets fast to see the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum in London. This 68m-long cloth, which depicts the Norman invasion of England in 1066, left France for the first time ever. Find out how physics made the journey possible. physicsworld.com/a/the-bayeux...
The Bayeux Tapestry: how optical techniques have let this artwork come home – Physics WorldHonor Powrie celebrates the optical techniques that have digitized, restored and protected the Bayeux Tapestryphysicsworld.comEngineers are constantly striving to improve the safety and performance of electric-vehicle batteries. But it may just be as simple as utilizing physical pressure. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/pressurizi...
Pressurizing EV battery electrodes could make them last longer, if it’s done right – Physics WorldExtending the lifetime of electric-vehicle batteries could reduce the need for mining critical mineralsphysicsworld.comLeron Borsten and Shanti Pise see if it's possible to teach quantum teleportation to teenagers using a pictorial approach to quantum physics in just one week. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/can-a-16-y...
Can a 16-year-old really understand quantum teleportation? – Physics WorldLeron Borsten and Shanti Pise report from a week-long event that sought to teach quantum physics to teenagersphysicsworld.comA new method of stabilizing radioactive, pear-shaped molecules like this one could open the door to sensitive searches for physics beyond the Standard Model – with no particle accelerator required. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/cold-radio...
Cold radioactive molecules offer a tabletop route to new physics – Physics WorldNuclear symmetry violations could show up in molecules containing pear-shaped radium nucleiphysicsworld.comA new “photonic multi-lane highway” carries multiple topologically-protected optical signals without the need for a bulky insulator. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/w4um50ZtILt
'Photonic multi-lane highway' enjoys insulator-free topological protection – Physics WorldNew technology uses a photonic valley half-semimetalow.lyNew measurements by @cern.bsky.social's ALPHA collaboration show that antihydrogen's ground-state hyperfine splitting is the same as normal hydrogen's to within four ppm. That's two orders of magnitude more precise than previous experiments. Getting closer...🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/matter-ant...
Matter-antimatter symmetry measurement sets new precision record – Physics WorldCERN’s ALPHA collaboration pins down the ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen within four parts per millionphysicsworld.comAt what point does a material become so viscous that it cannot flow at all? Geophysicist Masaki Yoshida found an answer, and it's much lower than expected. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/geophysici...
Geophysicist identifies a maximum practical viscosity – Physics WorldBoundary between materials that flow and those that don’t could shed light on Earth’s early historyphysicsworld.comResearchers in China have cross-calibrated radiation detectors on 25 navigation satellites. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/97Uf50ZsfJL
GPS particle detectors track space radiation over two decades – Physics WorldCross calibration combines data from 25 satellitesow.lyWe explore how quantum computers could be used in particle physics in our latest podcast. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/lAeS50Zsfv6
Quarks and qubits: how quantum computing could transform particle physics – Physics WorldThis podcast also explores the intersection of general relativity and quantum informationow.lyFaramarz S Gard, a researcher at Argentina’s Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA), describes the first-hand impact of funding cuts and job losses in the country’s scientific system. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/letter-fro...
Letter from Argentina: 'an empty desk and an idle electron microscope signal the erosion of the country's science' – Physics WorldFaramarz S Gard laments the decline of Argentine sciencephysicsworld.comA possible exosatellite has been discovered 73 light years away. It’s roughly the size of Jupiter and orbiting a brown dwarf, which in turn is orbiting the star CD-35 2722. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/discovery-...
Discovery of giant ‘exosatellite’ challenges our notion of what makes a moon – Physics WorldIn a novel three-tiered hierarchical system, the star CD-35 2722 is orbited by a brown dwarf that, in turn, is orbited by a newly discovered exosatellite candidatephysicsworld.comDid you know one of the most fundamental results in quantum physics was first published in a journal funded by media mogul Robert Maxwell who paid published authors 10 cents per word? Iulia Georgescu reveals all. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/john-bell-...
John Bell and the most obscure journal in physics – Physics WorldIulia Georgescu looks at the curious history of the journal Physicsphysicsworld.comResearchers have found that sensitive health information about individual patients can be extracted from medical AI models more effectively than previously thought. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/privacy-ri...
Privacy risks from medical AI are greater than previously thought – Physics WorldStudy reveals how sensitive health information about individual patients could be extracted from diagnostic medical AI modelsphysicsworld.comResearchers have observed a four-carbon sugar, erythrulose, in the interstellar medium for the first time. Such sugar could have contributed to the resources available for early biological processes, providing insight into how life began on Earth. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/scientists...
Scientists discover sugar in interstellar space – Physics WorldThe first detection of sugar in the interstellar medium could shed more light on how life began on Earthphysicsworld.com