Skip to Main Content
Skip Nav Destination

Issues

Readers’ Forum

Physics Today 68 (9), 8–10 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2894
Physics Today 68 (9), 10 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2895
Physics Today 68 (9), 10–11 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2896
Physics Today 68 (9), 11 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2897
Physics Today 68 (9), 11 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2898

Search and Discovery

Physics Today 68 (9), 12–14 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2899

The world’s strongest pulsed-power source takes a shot at an 80-year-old condensed-matter-physics problem.

Physics Today 68 (9), 14–15 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2900

A modest change in the application of adaptive optics to light microscopy produces a dramatic increase in the field of view.

Physics Today 68 (9), 16–18 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2901

A scaled-down experiment provides a platform to study how magnetic fields evolve as galaxy clusters merge.

Physics Today 68 (9), 18 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2902
Physics Today 68 (9), 18–19 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2903
Physics Today 68 (9), 19 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2904
Physics Today 68 (9), 19 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2905
Physics Today 68 (9), 19 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2906

Issues and Events

Physics Today 68 (9), 20–22 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2907

Ripples in spacetime and the violent events that cause them may become accessible for study by the end of the decade.

Physics Today 68 (9), 22–25 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2908

The effort to find objects that might threaten Earth is far from complete, and NASA admits it won’t meet a 2020 congressional deadline to find the bigger ones.

Physics Today 68 (9), 24 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2909
Physics Today 68 (9), 26–27 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2910

Researchers are exploring applications that extend beyond optical invisibility cloaks.

Physics Today 68 (9), 27–28 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2911

Articles

Physics Today 68 (9), 30–35 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2912

Thought experiments that long puzzled the thermodynamics community are now being performed in the lab—and they’re forging a deeper understanding of the second law.

Physics Today 68 (9), 38–44 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2913

A new class of nanomaterials that convert near-IR radiation into tunable visible light has important implications for many fields of science and technology.

Physics Today 68 (9), 46–52 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2914

In this peculiar history, the main actors are committees and no seminal papers or scientific giants emerge. Seat-of-the-pants guesses made in the 1960s proved to be roughly correct, and the details are still being fleshed out today.

Books

Physics Today 68 (9), 53 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2915
Physics Today 68 (9), 53–54 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2916
Physics Today 68 (9), 54–56 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2917
Physics Today 68 (9), 56–57 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2918

New Products

Physics Today 68 (9), 58–60 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2919

Obituaries

In Special Collection: Print Obituaries
Physics Today 68 (9), 62–63 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2920
In Special Collection: Print Obituaries
Physics Today 68 (9), 63–64 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2921
In Special Collection: Print Obituaries
Physics Today 68 (9), 64–65 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2922
In Special Collection: Print Obituaries
Physics Today 68 (9), 65 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2923

Quick Study

Physics Today 68 (9), 66–67 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2924

A small fraction of light absorbed by leaves is reemitted as fluorescence. Studies of that process at both large and small scales will help scientists better understand global photosynthesis and its connection to climate.

Back Scatter

Physics Today 68 (9), 80 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2925
Close Modal

or Create an Account

Close Modal
Close Modal