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From the Editor

Physics Today 70 (2), 8 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3439

Readers’ Forum

Physics Today 70 (2), 10 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3440
Physics Today 70 (2), 10–11 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3441
Physics Today 70 (2), 11–13 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3442
Physics Today 70 (2), 13 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3443
Physics Today 70 (2), 13–14 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3444
Physics Today 70 (2), 14 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3445
Physics Today 70 (2), 14 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3446
Physics Today 70 (2), 14–15 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3447
Physics Today 70 (2), 15 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3448
Physics Today 70 (2), 15 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3449
Physics Today 70 (2), 15 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3450

Search and Discovery

Physics Today 70 (2), 16–18 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3451

For the first time, researchers have probed the energy difference between two orbital states of an antimatter atom.

Physics Today 70 (2), 18–21 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3452

A “stop-motion” crystallization experiment laid bare the liquid’s behavior in a temperature range that was once considered inaccessible.

Physics Today 70 (2), 21–23 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3453

A structure made entirely out of an n-type semiconductor can mimic some properties of a p-type semiconductor.

Physics Today 70 (2), 23 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3454
Physics Today 70 (2), 23–24 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3455
Physics Today 70 (2), 24 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3456
Physics Today 70 (2), 24 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3457

Issues and Events

Physics Today 70 (2), 26–29 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3458

Although still productive, the facilities must find alternative funding to avoid being sacrificed for new cutting-edge telescopes.

Physics Today 70 (2), 29–31 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3459

Researchers are increasingly partnering with local residents to obtain climate and environmental data. But the endeavor calls for interpersonal savvy.

Physics Today 70 (2), 31–33 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3460

A US interagency program is refining methods of deflecting asteroids as it works toward finding tens of thousands of undetected near-Earth objects.

Physics Today 70 (2), 33–35 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3461

The weapons facility is exploring phenomena found in brown dwarfs, the cores of “super Earths,” new phases of carbon, and other extreme environments.

Articles

Physics Today 70 (2), 36–42 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3462

Boulder, Colorado, grew to become an important science center in part because nearby mountains provided an excellent spot for solar observation. But local scientists’ connections to the Northeast establishment and some clever PR didn’t hurt.

Physics Today 70 (2), 44–49 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3463

The imprimatur bestowed by peer review has a history that is both shorter and more complex than many scientists realize.

Physics Today 70 (2), 50–56 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3464

Initiated in 2013, the American Physical Society Bridge Program has assisted more than a hundred underrepresented racial and ethnic minority students to pursue PhDs in physics.

Books

Physics Today 70 (2), 57 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3465
Physics Today 70 (2), 57–58 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3466
Physics Today 70 (2), 58–60 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3467
Physics Today 70 (2), 60 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3468
Physics Today 70 (2), 61–62 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3469

New Products

Physics Today 70 (2), 63–65 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3470

Obituaries

In Special Collection: Print Obituaries
Physics Today 70 (2), 67–68 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3471
In Special Collection: Print Obituaries
Physics Today 70 (2), 68–69 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3472
In Special Collection: Print Obituaries
Physics Today 70 (2), 69 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3473

Quick Study

Physics Today 70 (2), 78–79 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3474

With a few simple instructions, participants at the Atlanta Science Festival mimicked a phenomenon that can have fatal consequences in biological systems.

Back Scatter

Physics Today 70 (2), 80 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3475
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