• It’s Women’s History Month!

    Highlighting women who changed the world: Lise Meitner (1878 – 1968) More from Wikipedia 

    Lise Meitner solved the problem of nuclear fission—and although she never got the Nobel, she is the only woman outside of mythology to have an element named after her alone.

    (Scott Bembenek on August 29, 2017)

     

  • Check out the series “Breakthrough”!

    Breakthrough is a short film anthology from Science Friday and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) that follows women working at the forefront of their fields. Each episode blends deeply personal stories with innovative scientific research of women across STEM fields.
  • Physics Table

    Join us for the last Physics Table of the term!  Come chat, wrap up your term, or talk about what you’ll keep yourself busy with for the next couple of weeks (how will YOU relax?)!  Tomorrow (Tuesday) at 12:25 on zoom!

  • APS Articles

    This Week in Physics Magazine — March 8, 2021

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    March 8, 2021

    Many countries in the Middle East and Western Asia have exceptionally high levels of participation of women in STEM fields—a matter for reflection and celebration on International Women’s Day.

    Physics Magazine’s Sessions at the March Meeting

    March 8, 2021

    Physics will host a Communication Session and a Movie Night at the APS March Meeting.

    Viewpoint

    Why More Women Study Physics in Muslim Countries

    Heba EL-Deghaidy – March 8, 2021

    Issues related to gender identity and the expression of femininity are key to understanding the high representation of women in physics in Muslim majority countries.

    Feature

    Where Women Scientists Are the Majority

    March 8, 2021

    Women physicists from Lebanon, Palestine, Pakistan, and Egypt share their thoughts about being scientists in places where women make up a much larger share of STEM graduates than in Europe and in the US.

    Video

    Liquid Jet Decelerates Faster than Expected

    March 5, 2021

    Video recordings show that the small mountain of liquid that appears after a drop hits a liquid surface has some surprising properties.

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    Teaching a Neural Network the Hard Way

    March 4, 2021

    A neural network can be made to produce more reliable predictions of nonlinear systems if it is created with conservation laws built in.

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    Upping Brightness 1000-Fold

    March 4, 2021

    By changing the material commonly used to make devices for generating entangled photons, researchers create a quantum light source that is significantly brighter than others.

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    Electrons and Water Molecules Form a Pulsating Cluster

    March 3, 2021

    In water, single electrons can cluster with water molecules to form a quasiparticle that oscillates in size, a behavior that could influence the equilibration speed of chemical reactions in the system.

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    Watching an Egg Cook with X Rays

    March 2, 2021

    An x-ray scattering technique reveals how egg whites gel on a range of length and timescales.

    Research News

    At-Home Experiment Exposes Gel Cracks

    March 3, 2021

    Kept out of the lab by COVID-19, an undergraduate student has performed experiments in his living room, revealing a mechanism for fracture elongation in soft materials.