The week in physics: 5G pinch points; Martian soundscape; Colorized microfluidics

Listening to the Martian soundscape Forward this email  View in your browser THE WEEK IN PHYSICS: 23–27 MAY Advertisement Introducing one of our newest systems, the TURBOLAB Core Leybold is now pleased to present a new addition to the line, the TURBOLAB Core. It offers all the reliability, power, and ease of setup you would expect from a Leybold product. The various add-ons this pumping station can support simultaneously allow for the adaptability to meet the needs of almost any application. Learn more. Infographic: 5G pinch points The frequencies allocated for wireless broadband communication could lead to costly interference for scientists and others who rely on specific bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. Alex Lopatka and Freddie Pagani June issue preview W-boson mass hints at physics beyond the standard model Nearly a decade of collisions and a decade of analysis yield the fundamental particle's mass with the highest precision to date. Heather M. Hill Webinar Live Webinar: Colloids out of Equilibrium: An Uphill Battle How does nature build materials that make cells move, divide and multiply? Pushing everything away from equilibrium by consumption of fuels might be the answer! During this webinar, we will show how to take these fuel-dependent processes and translate them to synthetic colloidal systems in a quest for new dynamic materials. Register now. FROM THE VAULT: February 1978 Physicists and the revolt against science in the 1930's The Depression provoked an attack upon science, which was aggravated by a highly publicized dispute between Millikan and Compton, exposing difficulties for physics in the United States that remain facts of life today. Daniel J. Kevles Listening to the Martian soundscape Long-sought acoustic data reveal new properties of the red planet's atmosphere and show that sound travels quite differently from how it travels on Earth. Alex Lopatka Webinar Live Webinar: Mechanism Behind the High-Temperature Superconductivity in Copper-Oxide We use atomic-scale visualization of the response of both charge-transfer energy E and superconductive electron-pair density to alternations in unit-cell geometry. Concurrence with theory for hole-doped charge-transfer insulators indicates that charge-transfer superexchange is the electron-pairing mechanism of superconductivity in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x. Register now. Microfluidics with a splash of color The channels have porous internal structures that control flow behavior and sense fluid properties. Christine Middleton Groundwater flows deep under Antarctic ice Ice-dynamics models must be updated now that researchers have observed a thick layer of salty water in sediments beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Alex Lopatka FROM THE MAY MAGAZINE Further delays at ITER are certain, but their duration isn't clear A halt to construction, pandemic-caused delays in deliveries, labor strife, and concerns about potential beryllium exposure are among recent challenges to the fusion project. David Kramer Get notified about our webinars and whitepapers Sign up Get Physics Today delivered for just $25 per year Subscribe FEATURED JOBS > Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/div) in the Field of Experimental Plasma Catalysis  |  Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik > Science Program Officer-Astrophysics  |  The Kavli Foundation Are you hiring? Do you want your job to appear here? Post with Physics Today and select the "Publication" enhancement to easily showcase your job to 66 000 physicists and engineers. Physics Today is published by the American Institute of Physics 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740 USA +1 301 209 3100 © 2022 American Institute of Physics. Unsubscribe  |  Email Preferences  |  Privacy Policy  |  Contact Us