The week in physics: Farm Hall; Alpine meteorology; Turbulent liquid metals

The elusive truth of Farm Hall Forward this email  View in your browser THE WEEK IN PHYSICS: 16–20 MAY Advertisement It's Always Safer to have Backup Get the added safety of a backup system when handling hazardous and/or expensive gases and vapors. KNF LeakTight pumps offer ultra-low leak rates of <6 × 10-6 mbar L/sec and a safety back-up diaphragm, plus safeguards against intrusion contamination. Flow rates from 15 – 290 L/min. Options include explosion-proof motors and material choices. Learn more. The elusive truth of Farm Hall In 1945 German nuclear physicists were detained in an English mansion, where their conversations were secretly recorded and transcribed. More than 75 years later, what do those transcripts actually tell us? Ryan Dahn June issue preview In Ukraine, science will need rebuilding postwar; in Russia, its isolation could endure The impulse to help Ukrainian scientists is widespread. But balancing sanctions against Russia while keeping open bridges of communication is tricky and controversial. Toni Feder FROM THE VAULT: July 1979 Beauty and the quest for beauty in science Science, like the arts, admits aesthetic criteria; we seek theories that display "a proper conformity of the parts to one another and to the whole" while still showing "some strangeness in their proportion." S. Chandrasekhar Advertisement Quiet, Cost-effective, Dry Vacuum Pumps The Pfeiffer Vacuum's HiScroll pump is ideal for your lab with its intelligent pressure monitoring that lets you set your pressure and forget it. The vacuum pump has the fastest pump down to get you to your operating pressure quickly and is extremely quiet, so you won't need earplugs. It features a long service life with two years before the first service. Learn more. Karl Gabl, mountain meteorologist extraordinaire Some of the world's elite climbers have entrusted their lives to the Austrian meteorologist and his high-altitude forecasts. Vedrana Simičević Circulation collapses in turbulent liquid metals The liquids' opacity makes it impossible to look at their flow structure. Instead, researchers listen to it. Johanna L. Miller FROM THE MAY MAGAZINE ABACC to the future At the end of the Cold War, two South American rivals built a system of nuclear safeguards that culminated in the 1991 founding of a bilateral organization, ABACC. Can that nonproliferation regime be exported? Christopher Dunlap Get notified about our webinars and whitepapers Sign up Get Physics Today delivered for just $25 per year Subscribe FEATURED JOBS > Engineering Manager  |  Thorlabs, Inc. > Field System Engineer  |  DECTRIS USA 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