The week in physics: Scrambling quantum states; The physics of bowling a perfect strike

The week in physics: 25–29 August Quantum states can be scrambled extremely quickly The surprising theoretical result holds both good news and bad news for the ease of making quantum measurements. Johanna L. Miller The perfect strike in tenpin bowling How hitting just 4 pins can result in knocking down all 10, over and over. Curtis Hooper From the vault: January 2018 The fat in a perfect croissant Delicious, flaky croissants owe their wonderful texture to the complex, multiscale structure of butter or related fats. Braulio Macias Rodriguez and Alejandro G. Marangoni The successes and challenges of US–Soviet scientific communication Research exchanges between US and Soviet scientists during the second half of the 20th century may be instructive for navigating today's debates on scientific collaboration. Anna Doel Matter–antimatter asymmetry is observed in baryon decay Previous detections of CP violation had been limited to the decay of quark–antiquark pairs. But it's baryons—particles composed of three quarks—that make up the observable universe. Laura Fattaruso From the September issue Medical imaging with antimatter Positron emission tomography's ability to image the body's biochemistry, not just its anatomy, makes it a powerful tool for detecting diseases. John Sunderland Post a Job Get Job Alerts Browse All Jobs Director (f/m/x) at the Peter Grünberg Institute as Full Professor (W3) (f/m/x) Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (Jülich, Germany) View Job Stanford Science Fellows Stanford University (Stanford, CA) View Job Assistant Professor of Physics Colorado College (Colorado Springs, CO) View Job Instructor of Physics San Juan College (Farmington, NM) View Job Synthetic Biologist - Postdoctoral Researcher Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA) View Job Assistant Professor - Theoretical Quantum Optics University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada) 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