The week in physics: A Cold War astronomical collaboration; International Physics Olympiad

The week in physics: 18–22 August French space companies come to Texas for a startup accelerator program Seeking to attract new ideas, the Rice University initiative introduces French space startups to the US commercial space market. Jenessa Duncombe From radio with love: A Cold War astronomical collaboration To construct an interferometer with a baseline spanning the planet, US radio astronomers reached out to their Soviet counterparts. Rebecca Charbonneau From the vault: December 2013 The future of the Higgs boson Experimentalists and theorists are still celebrating the Nobel-worthy discovery of the Higgs boson that was announced in July 2012 at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Now they are working on the profound implications of that discovery. Joseph Lykken and Maria Spiropulu France hosts 55th International Physics Olympiad The US was the lone country to have all five of its competitors receive gold medals. Maia Chandler From FYI, AIP's science policy news service Trump gives political appointees final say on grants A recent executive order looks to officially establish political review processes that staff say are already being implemented at NSF. Clare Zhang From the August issue A quick and easy probe of biomolecular structure By how long they take to escape an entropic trap, slender molecules can be distinguished from compact ones. Johanna L. Miller Post a Job Get Job Alerts Browse All Jobs LQC Postdoctoral & Research Scientist Positions in Qubit Materials & Devices University of Maryland (College Park, MD) View Job Faculty Positions National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan) View Job Assistant Professor of Physics Oberlin College and Conservatory (Oberlin, OH) View Job Assistant Teaching Professor in Physics Towson University (Towson, MD) View Job Knowledge Management Program Manager Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA) View Job Postdoc, Visiting Professor, or Sabbatical Member Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ) 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