2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (192+ words) Participants at the 1953 IUPAP International Conference of Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan. In a new article in Isis, Hiroto Kono, a curator and researcher at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Japan, shows how that translation is both…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (295+ words) The National Academies Keck Center in Washington, DC. Jorge Mendoza, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons The White House signaled interest early this month in investigating whether the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine should be suspended or debarred from federal funding, in…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (54+ words) AIP. ORG "A dual-path system would provide more powerful functionality for quantum holography and other quantum imaging applications," Wang said. "The second-generation system is expected to largely meet the requirements for super-resolution quantum imaging detection." " 2026 American Institute of Physics...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (173+ words) lead image It is unclear to historians how Vikings navigated the seas. Centuries before magnetic compasses were introduced to Europe, Viking seafarers traveled long distances to far-flung locations like North America and the Black Sea. One explanation, although unverified, is…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (153+ words) Advancing the promise of conical spouted beds for coarse particle processing lead image Probing these hidden dynamics, Zhang et al. performed high-resolution supercomputer simulations to resolve the gas phase and track millions of individual particles. The results elucidate the fundamental…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (352+ words) lead image In a perfect world, different types of plastics would be kept separate from the time of their disposal to their polymer recovery, but the recycling story that many people are taught is optimistic: It's nearly impossible to keep…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (147+ words) lead image Despite its longstanding ubiquity, fundamental aspects of glass remain mysterious. For example, researchers have struggled to establish a quantitative theory of glass transition that connects energy flow, or thermodynamics, with the dynamic movement of atoms in glass former…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (147+ words) lead image Pistachio shells, wood shavings, cow manure " it's easy to think of such substances as waste. Yet, each is rife with organic compounds that can be converted to energy through processes including hydrothermal carbonization, pyrolysis, and densification. Luan et…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (300+ words) lead image High-performance and shallow-water vessels often rely on waterjet propulsors, which move ships by sucking in water from underneath the hull, accelerating it with a pump, and shooting it out the back as a high-speed jet. But the propulsors…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (679+ words) AIP CEO, Michael Moloney, welcomes audience to the Fireside Chat event. Special NBLA display of Oppenheimer materials. NBLA archivist, Allison Buser, discusses displayed materials with event guests. David Kaiser, Charles Oppenheimer, Kai Bird, and Dorothy Oppenheimer Vanderford (from left to…...