Sunflowers are blooming, stores are trumpeting back-to-school sales, and professors are scrambling to chart out the courses they planned to develop in July. If you’re applying for an academic job this fall, now is the time to get your application …
Physics has 7 base units: seconds, metres, kilograms, amperes, kelvins, moles, and candela. Of those, we technically only need the first three to calculate the latter four. But according to a new paper, we can actually calculate the first three …
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Winds from the north made for wild conditions at Nazaré in Portugal. Photographer Ben Thouard caught these crashing waves in the late afternoon, when the low sun angle illuminated the spray of the surf. Every year teratons of salt and …
Gayoung Lee at Gizmodo today has responses to the question Whatever Happened to String Theory?. Carlo Rovelli and I give the obvious and accurate answer that it’s a failed idea, explaining why. The other answers exhibit the sad state of …
Most of the atomic clocks in the world — fewer than 500 in total — are housed at standards institutes and used to keep time for the planet. But the one inside UC Berkeley’s Kolkowitz Lab has a different mission. …
In June we featured an interview with the author Olivia Campbell about her recent book Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History. In Sisters in Science, Campbell traces the lives and careers of …
Applications open Monday 8th April 2024. It’s once again time for the Cardiff University Physics Summer School ! This extremely popular 3-day non-residential programme is aimed at AS students who are considering pursuing a physics degree. This years free event …
Faculty recognized for the exceptional professional and personal guidance they provide postdocs. Shining a light on the critical role of mentors in a postdoc’s career, the MIT Postdoctoral Association presented the fourth annual Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring Awards to professors John Marshall …
📖Read Time: 4 minutes 📊Readability: Fairly Difficult 📐 (Advanced) 🔖Core Topics: itex, scale, relativator, hairline, relativistic The Relativator (revisited) This is an update of my 2006 post (reconstructed in 2014) Relativator: The circular slide-rule for physicists.This is a circular slide-rule …