The week in physics: Earthquake forecasting; Static electricity

The week in physics: 14–18 July The pursuit of reliable earthquake forecasting The elusive nature of earthquakes makes forecasting notoriously difficult. Researchers are increasingly turning to AI to help tackle the challenge. S. Mostafa Mousavi, Camilla Cattania, and Gregory C. Beroza The enduring puzzle of static electricity Even though it lacks a complete explanation, the small-scale, everyday effect is being exploited for various applications. Ignaas Jimidar and Joshua Méndez Harper ADVERTISEMENT Learn Why Top Employers Hire Physics Graduates at the SPSCon Career Expo Leading science and technology companies are increasingly hiring physics bachelors for roles in engineering, software development, data science, and more. Discover the roles physics bachelors are filling and how you can tap into their talent at the 2025 Physics & Astronomy Congress Career Expo! Learn More From the vault: December 1992 Color perception The physical stimulus that causes a color perception can be measured by straightforward physical methods, but predicting the perceived color is much more complex. Alan R. Robertson You might have missed The Charm School: A summer research opportunity for women before REUs Mathematician and physicist Dorothy Weeks brought female students into the laboratory almost two decades before NSF began funding a research program targeted at undergraduates. Joanna Behrman From the July issue Noninvertible symmetries: What's done cannot be undone Recent research has shown that the traditional notion of symmetry is too limited. A new class of symmetries is bringing surprising insights to quantum systems. Shu-Heng Shao Post a Job Get Job Alerts Browse All Jobs Director of the Ion Beam Laboratory University at Albany (Albany, NY) View Job Machine Director Canadian Light Source (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) View Job Director Fermilab (Batavia, IL) View Job Radiology Research Postdoctoral Fellow Dartmouth Health (Lebanon, NH) View Job LQC Postdoctoral & Research Scientist Positions in Qubit Materials & Devices University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD) View Job ISTA-Fellow Postdoctoral Program Institute of Science and Technology Austria (Klosterneuburg, Austria) View Job Physics Today is published by the American Institute of Physics. To manage your AIP email preferences and newsletter subscriptions, click here. Or unsubscribe from all AIP emails. © 2025 American Institute of Physics. Physics Today 1 Physics Ellipse College Park, MD 20740-3842 +1 301 209 3100