The week in physics: Science education for judges

Supreme Court decision puts focus on science education for judges Forward this email View in your browser THE WEEK IN PHYSICS: 12–16 AUGUST Supreme Court decision puts focus on science education for judges With US federal courts no longer required to accept agencies' interpretations of laws, judges will assume more responsibility for evaluating scientific evidence. Clare Zhang Nonlinear optical computing without nonlinear optics A major stumbling block for the emerging neural-network processors could be overcome by flipping the script on how data are represented. Johanna L. Miller FROM THE VAULT: October 1981 Climate models To predict future states of the atmosphere one must evaluate the complicated interactions between air, sea, ice, land, and powerful external forces. Kenneth H. Bergman, Alan D. Hecht, and Stephen H. Schneider FROM THE AUGUST MAGAZINE Five-molecule water clusters have liquid-like properties With theory-guided rotational spectroscopy measurements—and some help from nuclear spin—researchers can tell whether a hydrogen chloride molecule in a tiny amount of water is dissolved. 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 Tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Engineering and Physics Department Providence College (Providence, RI) View Job Career & Employer Coordinator Optica (Washington, DC) View Job Instructional Resources Specialist Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) View Job Endowed Assistant Professor Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY) View Job Stanford Science Fellows Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences (Stanford, CA) View Job Program Associate, Matter-to-Life Program Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (New York, NY) 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