The week in physics: Strong, flexible ceramics; Ocean-going optical clocks

Keeping accurate time while on the ocean Forward this email View in your browser THE WEEK IN PHYSICS: 6–10 MAY Advertisement Motion Solutions for Semiconductor Applications PI provides a large selection of precision motion control solutions for the semiconductor industry. Examples are air bearing wafer stages, piezo stages for AFM, fast steering systems for beam management, nanometer precise programmable shims, nano-focusing stages, and low-profile Z-tip-tilt stages. See our Solutions. New ceramic material offers strength and flexibility Twisted 2D layers of boron nitride are fabricated into a novel 3D structure. STephen Case Keeping accurate time while on the ocean Researchers use iodine to design smaller optical clocks for uses outside the laboratory. Jennifer Sieben FROM THE VAULT: April 1962 Electron tunneling in solids Electron tunneling within a solid, though more complicated than tunneling of a free particle, arises in essentially the same way from a mode of wave propagation. It has recently become the basis of a new area of research. P. J. Price Webinar Webinar: Nanophotonics for Global Health and Sustainability Imagine a future with plentiful clean-energy harvesting to phase out fossil fuels, chemical manufacturing that does not emit harmful pollutants or produce wasteful byproducts, point-of-care diagnostics and sensors, and computers that operate at light speed and consume little energy. In this webinar, we describe the underlying physics and several emerging applications. Register now. Creating a good ammonia catalyst from an unreactive metal The presence of lanthanum near a cobalt catalyst quenches the catalyst's spin and lowers the activation energy required to split molecular nitrogen. R. Mark Wilson You might have missed Q&A: Physicist Lene Oddershede on leaving academia for philanthropy leadership She uses her physics expertise to guide a foundation's research investments. Toni Feder FROM THE MAY MAGAZINE The real butterfly effect and maggoty apples Even though the Navier–Stokes equations are deterministic, it seems that you cannot make predictions beyond a fixed time horizon, no matter how small the initial uncertainty. Tim Palmer 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 Director - ICTP-EAIFR Partner Institute The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Rwanda) View Job Program Technical Specialist Optica (Washington, DC) View Job Postdoctoral Scholar Position in Medical Physics UT Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, TX) View Job Visiting Assistant Professor, Physics University of Tampa (Tampa, FL) View Job Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics Centenary College of Louisiana (Shreveport, LA) View Job One-Year Visiting Professor - Physics Simpson College (Indianola, IA) 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