The week in physics: Insect-scale robots; Climate models

A simple, yet realistic climate model Forward this email View in your browser THE WEEK IN PHYSICS: 11–15 SEPTEMBER 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. A simple, yet realistic climate model It could be used for studying polar vortex variability and other features that aren't strongly dependent on low-atmosphere chemistry. Alex Lopatka Insect-scale robots powered by combustion Soft actuators on a four-footed robot enable it to crawl or jump from one spot to another while carrying up to 22 times its body weight. R. Mark Wilson FROM THE VAULT: April 1997 Probing the faintest galaxies An explosion of data from the Hubble Space Telescope and large ground‐based telescopes is inspiring astronomers and helping to decipher the early history of the universe. Henry C. Ferguson, Robert E. Williams, and Lennox L. Cowie You might have missed Commentary: Why the fascination with Oppenheimer? J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project scientists are a rare example of weapons designers who have gone down in history. Ryan Dahn Live webinar Webinar—Using Lasers to Accelerate Electrons to Multi-GeV Energies Using only lasers, this research group has accelerated electrons to 5 GeV. The acceleration, which takes place over only 20 cm, is approximately 20% of the acceleration achievable at the Stanford Linear Accelerator over 3 km. Register now. FROM THE SEPTEMBER MAGAZINE Helping the pandemic generation Physics undergraduates have returned to classrooms, but pandemic trauma has endured. How can the community assist? Brad R. Conrad and Matthew J. Wright 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 AI Training for Physics Experts Confidential (San Francisco, CA) View Job Open Rank Faculty Position in the Department of Chemical Engineering Stanford University School of Engineering (Stanford, CA) View Job Tenure-track Faculty in Condensed Matter Physics University of Notre Dame / Department of Physics & Astronomy (Notre Dame, IN) View Job Assistant Professor, Physics Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY) View Job Assistant Professor in Experimental Condensed Matter The University of Texas at Austin, College of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics (Austin, TX) View Job Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Physics Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, NC) 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