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Covering the people in the physics community and their activities through conference reports, profiles, and interviews.
A look back at the year online
Which items on Physics Today's website were the most popular in 2012?
Echo: The Complete Edition: A review
Physics, math, and materials science feature in a comic book series whose three main characters are strong, attractive women.
Agnieszka Zalewska: The first woman and the first Pole to preside over CERN's council
On 1 January 2013, Zalewska takes the reins of the lab's governing body for a one-year, twice-renewable term, succeeding France's Michel Spiro.
Ted Hsu: From physics PhD to Canadian parliament
A former nuclear physicist and investment banker now represents the district of Kingston and the Islands, Ontario, in Canada's House of Commons.
Before Watchmen's Dr. Manhattan: A review
Quantum physics endows the main character in a new comic book series with the ability to travel back and forth through time.
From China to Peru: A Japanese solar physicist's life as an accidental expat
Transnational moves, manual labor, and run-ins with terrorists have characterized the life and career of Mutsumi Ishitsuka.
Steering a premier gathering place for theoretical physicists
Lars Bildsten steps into the top job of a KITP that is in good shape. His first big challenge is to raise money for and oversee the construction of a new residence for visitors.
Saving Hubble: A conversation with the director
The film shows how people rallied to save NASA's iconic space observatory from termination.
Industrial Physics Forum hot on photovoltaic, diagnostic technologies
One underlying theme of the forum was that the developed world also benefits from developing-world initiatives to improve access to scientific equipment, increase the quality of education, and engineer low-cost technologies.
“Venky” Narayanamurti: Technology development is a public good
At the 2012 Industrial Physics Forum in Trieste, Italy, the condensed-matter physicist drew on experiences from his multifaceted career in his overarching talk on energy technology, innovation, and science policy.
A host of firsts as the Industrial Physics Forum takes center stage in Trieste, Italy
Organizers hope that the "action planning" breakout sessions on the forum's last day will lead to scientifically based capacity building projects in the developing and emerging countries from which many of the invited attendees hail.
Pursuing physics then, and now, in Latin America
Outgoing director of the Latin American Center for Physics discusses the center's focus, the ways in which the center helped him personally, and the challenges ahead.
Singing with the heavens
A plasma physicist marries ancient music with recordings of our solar system's hissing, whistling, chirping, crackling, and howling.
Forging ahead with astronomy, baby and all
Earning a bachelor's degree in physics and a PhD in astronomy is even more challenging when you've been raising a daughter since your sophomore year.
The year in reviews: Five books to put on your holiday wish list
Books editor Jermey Matthews picks his five favorite books that were reviewed last year in the pages of Physics Today.
IPF 2011: The electric economy: The supply/demand challenge
The electrical grid needs to keep up with demand, become more efficient and robust, and handle intermittent sources of energy.
IPF 2011: Cars, batteries, and thermoelectrics
A team from IBM aims to improve the energy density of car batteries. A team from GM aims to turn the waste heat from a car's exhaust gases into electricity.
IPF 2011: Materials for low-risk nuclear reactors
Materials science can help nuclear reactors run more safely and efficiently, produce less harmful waste, and last longer
IPF 2011: Energy security and energy policy
Sustainable energy is the theme of the latest Industrial Physics Forum, which is being held in Nashville, Tennessee, in conjunction with the annual meeting of AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing.
ROSAT retrospective: After years of space travel, the satellite observatory falls to Earth
One of the most successful x-ray observatories ever launched reentered Earth's atmosphere on 23 October.
A peek at dark energy between the pages
Books editor Jermey Matthews looks back at the reviews of five books on dark energy that have appeared in the pages of Physics Today since 2000.
A sustainable house in Tlemcen, Algeria
A team from Abou-Bekr Belkaid University in Algeria has designed an environmentally friendly house that is cheap to build, cool and heat.
Searching for a theory of quantum gravity
Bianca Dittrich is among the first of many new faces to populate Canada's Perimeter Institute as it expands toward its goal of becoming the world's largest center for theoretical physics.
Why go offshore?
A conference this summer examined the financial, technical, and political issues that must be addressed before offshore wind farms can become a viable source of renewable energy.
Discontinuity under the Aloha State
An advanced seismic imaging technique has provided a more detailed picture of mantle structure beneath the Hawaii islands, but it hasn't resolved how the islands formed.
Io's magma ocean provides a view into Earth's past
Magnetic field data collected by NASA's Galileo contains evidence of the magma sea.
Embracing physics as a returning student
With a strict schedule, chutzpah, determination, and focus, a nontraditional student takes on physics—and a lot of other things.
EGU 2011: Geodetic and inundation models of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami
At the European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna, Don Dingwell, the EGU president, introduced the session on the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake as the geoscientific community's way of paying respect and expressing condolences to the victims of March's seismic events.
EGU 2011: The slippery slope of alpine glaciers, permafrost, and newly formed lakes
At the general assembly of the European Geosciences Union, several experts spoke about climate change in alpine regions.
EGU 2011: An outdoor volcano laboratory; lots of questions, and a few answers
Surface activity at Mount Stromboli has been recorded in detail for a thousand years. The resulting wealth of data provided ample material for a discussion at the general assembly of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna.
EGU 2011: Effects of aerosols on the East Asia summer monsoon
When it rains, it pours. But where and how much it pours over China, North and South Korea, and Japan during the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) is changing.
IPF 2011: Superconductivity and wideband telecommunication
One of the most recent and promising commercial applications of superconductor electronics is a wideband telecommunications receiver.
IPF 2011: What to do with room-temperature superconductivity once we find it?
Power generation and storage hold a tremendous amount of promise as areas of application for room-temperature superconductors.
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