The week in physics: Playing with chirality; Imaging polarized light

A right-handed molecule is coaxed to behave like a left-handed one Forward this email View in your browser THE WEEK IN PHYSICS: 1–5 JULY A right-handed molecule is coaxed to behave like a left-handed one Electrons in a chiral molecule, if excited by ultrafast light pulses, can give the molecule entirely different properties. Alex Lopatka Behind the Cover: July 2024 Optical metamaterials are providing a compact route to polarized vision. Johanna L. Miller FROM THE VAULT: January 2015 Upwelling in the Southern Ocean Because deep water in the Southern Ocean is cold, centuries old, and rich in nutrients, its circulation exerts an outsized influence on Earth's heat balance, the carbon cycle, and much of ocean biology. Adele K. Morrison, Thomas L. Frölicher, and Jorge L. Sarmiento FROM THE JULY MAGAZINE The threat from cosmic flotsam A power-law distribution of asteroid impacts on Earth spans 13 orders of magnitude in energy. The risk is dominated by low-probability but high-consequence events. Mark Boslough 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 Physics Instructional Lab Manager Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, MA) View Job Dean of the School of Basic Sciences EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) View Job Head of Visitors Program (m/f/d) Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (Dresden, Germany) View Job Quantum Optics - Postdoctoral Researcher Rice University (Houston, TX) View Job Translational Immunology - Academic Graduate Appointee Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA) View Job Sr. Battery Scientist Ten-Nine Technologies (Tulsa, OK) 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