The week in physics: Stretchable aerogel fibers

Aerogel yields stretchable, thermally insulating fibers Forward this email View in your browser THE WEEK IN PHYSICS: 15–19 JANUARY Advertisement Faster Laser Communication with Steering Mirrors Responding to the higher data transmission rates demand, communication via laser beams, terrestrial, ground-to-satellite, and satellite-to-satellite is opening up new possibilities. Different technologies are available to provide the speed and precision needed to keep laser beams stabilized and pointed in the right direction, making sure they reach their targets exactly, over thousands of miles. See our solution. Aerogel yields stretchable, thermally insulating fibers The new fibers are tough enough to knit into washable and dyeable fabric that maintains its thermal insulation, even after 10 000 stretch-and-release cycles. R. Mark Wilson You might have missed Canada attempts to entice H-1B workers from US The country's new open work permit program is designed to capitalize on US-vetted STEM talent. Rachel Berkowitz Webinar Workshop: Engaging Students with Realistic Virtual Physics Labs The first half of this workshop will present a holistic interactive-engagement approach to learning and teaching physics. The second half will introduce virtual physics investigations that include everything a student needs to conduct realistic experiments. Register now. FROM THE VAULT: March 1951 Plasticity The phenomenon of the inelastic deformation of solids has in some respects been an aggravation, yet it has often been put to good use. James B. Kelley FROM THE JANUARY MAGAZINE Frequency-dependent squeezing makes LIGO even more sensitive Researchers at the gravitational-wave observatory were already using nonclassical states of light to boost their measurement precision. Now they've unveiled a still-subtler trick. Johanna L. Miller 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 Assistant Teaching Professor of Physics Penn State Harrisburg (Middletown, PA) View Job QCB Postdoctoral Fellowships University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NSF STC for Quantitative Cell Biology (Urbana, IL) View Job Professor and Director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) University of California Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA) View Job Goodnight Distinguished Chair in Quantum Computing North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC) View Job Basic Energy Sciences Program Manager U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science (Germantown, MD) View Job Postdoctoral Research Associate - Correlated Quantum Materials Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, TN) View Job Physics Today is published by the American Institute of Physics 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740 USA +1 301 209 3100 © 2024 American Institute of Physics. Unsubscribe  |  Email Preferences  |  Privacy Policy  |  Contact Us