The week in physics: Thwaites Glacier; Robotic earthworm

The melting underneath the Thwaites Glacier is complicated. Forward this email  View in your browser THE WEEK IN PHYSICS: 27 FEBRUARY–3 MARCH Advertisement Mad City Labs - Visit us at APS March Meeting, Booth #407 Tools for the Nanoscale. Closed loop Piezo Nanopositioners, Precision Micropositioners, AFM and NSOM, RM21® Single Molecule Microscopes. Our products are used widely in biophysics, condensed matter physics, material characterization, astronomy, interferometry, photonics, and quantum sensing. Worried about lead times? Talk to us! Learn more. The melting underneath the Thwaites Glacier is complicated By sending a robot to explore beneath the endangered Antarctic ice mass, researchers have found new features that affect its melt rate. Alex Lopatka Roboticists build a better earthworm Whether crawling along a surface or tunneling underground, a new robotic earthworm can elongate and compress each of its segments, much like bellows, as air passes through them or is drawn out. R. Mark Wilson Advertisement GaGe RazorMax PCIe 16-Bit 1 GS/s PC Digitizer/Oscilloscope Featuring unprecedented speed and resolution with four or two 16-bit input channels, 700 MHz input bandwidth, and 31 software selectable A/D sampling rates from 1 kS/s to 1 GS/s per channel. Standard 8 GB of onboard memory. PCIe data streaming rates up to 6 GB/s. PC Oscilloscope application and SDKs for C/C#, Python, MATLAB, & LabVIEW included. Learn more. FROM THE VAULT: September 1973 A theory of competitive running Using simple dynamics one can correlate the physiological attributes of runners with world track records and determine the optimal race strategy. Joseph B. Keller Live webinar Live webinar: The Principles of Deep Learning Theory Deep learning is an exciting approach to modern artificial intelligence that is based on artificial neural networks. The goal of this talk is to provide a blueprint—using tools from physics—for theoretically analyzing realistic deep neural networks. Register Now. Behind the Cover: March 2023 Qubits get a chemistry spin on the cover and in this month's issue. Heather M. Hill You might have missed HyperPhysics, the popular online physics resource, turns 25 Distinguished by its simple design and explanations, the physics education website remains a valuable resource for millions around the world. Sarah Wild Advertisement Mark Your Calendar: Special Careers Issue The October 2023 issue of Physics Today will mark the fifth annual special issue focused on careers & recruitment. Don't miss out on the hottest jobs, career advancement advice, real insights from those in the field and special recruitment packages that deliver! Learn more. FROM THE MARCH MAGAZINE Community heightens attention to accessibility for physicists with disabilities Fostering participation benefits the whole field, note proponents. Toni Feder Get notified about our webinars and whitepapers Sign up Get Physics Today delivered for just $25 per year Subscribe Accelerating career connections worldwide for over 75 years BROWSE ALL JOBS POST A JOB CREATE JOB ALERTS FEATURED JOBS Vice Provost for Research & Innovation Norfolk State University (Norfolk, VA) View Job Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics Stetson University (Deland, FL) View Job Research Assistant Professor(s) The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China) View Job Visiting Assistant Professor of Phyiscs Saint Mary's College (Notre Dame, IN) View Job Postdoctoral Fellow - Computational Theorist Carnegie Science-Earth and Planets Laboratory (Washington, DC) View Job Science Writer II Product Line Generalist Thorlabs (Lafayette, CO) View Job Physics Today is published by the American Institute of Physics 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740 USA +1 301 209 3100 © 2023 American Institute of Physics. Unsubscribe  |  Email Preferences  |  Privacy Policy  |  Contact Us