The week in physics: Honeybee geometry; Uranium production contracts; Nergis Mavalvala

Aerodynamics in the beautiful game; Light loops around (and around) an optical Möbius strip; Warming temperatures are redefining Arctic wildfires Forward this email  View in your browser THE WEEK IN PHYSICS: 28 NOVEMBER–2 DECEMBER Advertisement Product Showcase: AR's 750S1G6C AR's 750S1G6C is just one of the many new amplifiers in the S1G6C product line. At 750 W CW. 1 - 6 GHz, this model is a solid-state, Class A design, self-contained, air-cooled, broadband power amplifier designed for applications where instantaneous bandwidth, high gain, and linearity are required. Learn more. Q&A: Nergis Mavalvala, MIT sciences dean and longtime LIGO physicist The MacArthur fellow's efforts to minimize noise in gravitational-wave detection is yielding insights into the quantum behavior of macroscopic objects. Toni Feder Centrus keeps contract to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium The Department of Energy declines to reveal whether any other bidders participated in a competitive procurement whose outcome seemed preordained. David Kramer FROM THE VAULT: December 2017 Baryon acoustic oscillations: A cosmological ruler A density pattern created by acoustic waves in the early universe can be seen in the distribution of galaxies and used as a standard ruler with which to measure cosmological expansion. Will Percival Advertisement Call for Submissions: NASA StarShade Undergraduate Challenge NASA's Hybrid Observatory for Earth-like Exoplanets team is seeking undergraduate students to design and construct an orbiting starshade that could help examine extreme exoplanets from an Earth-stationed observatory. Students are encouraged to form teams from their local departments or universities. The deadline for phase 1 submissions is 1/20/23. Learn more. How do honeybees handle geometric frustration? To find out, researchers gathered image data from 10 hives, whose honeycombs the bees built on hexagonal frames that purposefully incorporated defects. R. Mark Wilson Behind the cover: December 2022 Tissue engineers are striving to produce the functional building blocks that create or restore damaged human tissues and organs. R. Mark Wilson Advertisement Register Now: #HowToREU Webinar Interested in learning about REUs, jobs, and summer internships? There is still time to find them and apply! Join SPS Director Brad Conrad and President Kiril Streletzky on December 8 at 3 PM Eastern to learn more. The session will last ~45 minutes and will cover a range of topics. Register to attend. FROM THE DECEMBER MAGAZINE Physics Nobel honors foundational quantum entanglement experiments The laureates brought the conceptual features of quantum physics back to mainstream interest. Heather M. Hill Get notified about our webinars and whitepapers Sign up Get Physics Today delivered for just $25 per year Subscribe FEATURED JOBS > Software Developer, Stanford Medical Physics  |  Stanford University, Radiation Medical Physics > Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor- Optical Physics  |  James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences > Physics Department Chair  |  North Carolina A&T State University 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