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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.