The week in physics: Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp; Galaxy chaser Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil

Voices from a feminist antinuclear encampment Forward this email View in your browser THE WEEK IN PHYSICS: 24–28 JUNE Voices from a feminist antinuclear encampment Newsletters produced by a group of women protesting the deployment of nuclear missiles in the UK offer a window into an oft-forgotten piece of Cold War history. Ryan Dahn Q&A: Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil chases dwarf galaxies She navigated barriers in Turkey and the US to become an astronomy professor. Toni Feder FROM THE VAULT: November 2015 What every physicist should know about string theory Some of nature's rhymes—the appearance of similar structures in different areas of physics—underlie the way that string theory potentially unifies gravity with the other forces of nature. Edward Witten Nuclear bomb–produced isotope reveals how vegetation cycles through carbon By tracking radioactive carbon left behind from mid-20th-century nuclear tests, researchers find that plants take in more carbon than expected but also release it back into the atmosphere faster. Laura Fattaruso FROM THE JULY MAGAZINE Metamaterial device makes 16 polarization measurements at once Capturing all the ways that an object can affect a light wave's polarization has always been cumbersome. Now it can be done in an instant. 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 Sr. Battery Scientist Ten-Nine Technologies (Tulsa, OK) View Job Upper School Physics Faculty Spartanburg Day School (Spartanburg, SC) View Job Upper School Science Teacher The Savannah Country Day School (Savannah, GA) View Job Superintendent of the Electronics Science and Technology Division US Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC) View Job Nuclear Research Scientist for the Energy Transition Schlumberger-Doll Research (Cambridge, MA) View Job Chief Medical Physicist Inspira Health (Vineland, NJ) 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