Physics Today’s news reporter and books editor, Jermey Matthews, took his two young daughters to the inaugural USA Science and Engineering Festival, which was held in Washington, DC, in October. Matthews describes the experience and the thoughts it evoked about encouraging children’s interest in science.
This year’s Industrial Physics Forum took place in Rochester, New York, at a joint meeting of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. The seven reports filed from the forum covered new and diverse applications of the laser, the device whose 50th anniversary provided the forum’s theme.
In his blog The Dayside, Charles Day writes about ethics in biophysics, using science to solve household conundrums, nuclear disarmament, superchiral light, and a universal robot gripper.
