The week in physics: Ageless white dwarfs; Adaptive-optics microscopy; US budget cuts

Creating guide stars from entangled photons Forward this email View in your browser THE WEEK IN PHYSICS: 11–15 MARCH Creating guide stars from entangled photons A new adaptive-optics method for microscopy relies on the same photons that are used to illuminate biological specimens. Jennifer Sieben How some white dwarfs stay young An intricate crystallization process may rejuvenate dying stars for billions of years. Andrew Grant Webinar Webinar—El Niño and climate change: What can we expect for the rest of 2024? This webinar will provide an overview of El Niño and La Niña and their global impacts. We will review the strong El Niño of 2023–24 and the current forecast for the rest of 2024. We will also cover what is understood about ENSO and global warming. Register now. FROM THE VAULT: August 1992 Women in physics: Reversing the exclusion Commitment and deliberate action by both institutions and individuals are necessary to rectify the conditions that now turn women away from physics careers. Mary Fehrs and Roman Czujko Many US science agencies see cuts in final 2024 budget Within two days, President Biden signed a bill ordering cuts to most nondefense science agencies in 2024 and released a request to raise funding for many of those same agencies in 2025. Mitch Ambrose Webinar Workshop—Inspiring Students to Think Like Physicists with Hands-On Data Collection and Real-World Modeling In the first half of this workshop, we will highlight how your students can investigate physics in the world around them. Discover how you can use your students' surroundings to introduce the concept of "goal-less problems," helping your class learn—and think—like physicists. Register now. FROM THE MARCH MAGAZINE The connection between Darwin's finches and bacterial flagellar motors The evolution of specialized biological tools used by organisms tells a story about the environments that shaped them. Mohammed Kaplan 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 Lecturer - Physics - College of Letters & Science University of California Berkeley (Berkeley, CA) View Job Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Physics - Tenure Track University of West Georgia (Carrollton, GA) View Job Postdoc position in Neutron Scattering from Confined and Driven Quantum Materials Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) View Job Senior Scientist for a Permanent Position in Accelerator Physics Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (Zeuthen, Germany) View Job Lead, Accelerator Physics Canadian Light Source (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) View Job Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Theoretical/Computational Biophysics Indiana University Indianapolis (Bloomington, IN) 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