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Physics Today 73 (11), 8 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4601

Readers’ Forum

Physics Today 73 (11), 10 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4602
Physics Today 73 (11), 10–11 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4603
Physics Today 73 (11), 11 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4604
Physics Today 73 (11), 11 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4605
Physics Today 73 (11), 11–12 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4606
Physics Today 73 (11), 12 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4607
Physics Today 73 (11), 12 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4608

Search and Discovery

Physics Today 73 (11), 14–16 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4609

The decoupling of electronic and nuclear spin states allows scattering fermionic atoms to rapidly cool.

Physics Today 73 (11), 17–19 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4610

Why, as the oceans warm, are seafloor animals moving to even hotter waters?

Physics Today 73 (11), 20–21 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4611

By taking advantage of the electron spin in nitrogen–vacancy centers and carefully tracking the centers, researchers detected temperature variations as small as 0.22 °C.

Issues and Events

Physics Today 73 (11), 22–25 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4612

Ridicule has given way to high hopes.

Physics Today 73 (11), 25–27 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4613

Evaluating the success of an upstart agency that swings for the fences on clean-energy technologies isn’t straightforward.

Articles

Physics Today 73 (11), 28–34 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4614

A few simple metrics characterize outbreaks like COVID-19, but calculating them correctly is surprisingly tricky.

Physics Today 73 (11), 36–42 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4615

The controversial best seller heralded the end of an era in science popularizations.

Physics Today 73 (11), 44–50 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4616

Although a magnetic field gradually destroys the superconducting state in most materials, a small family of uranium compounds bucks the trend.

Books

Physics Today 73 (11), 51–52 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4617
Physics Today 73 (11), 53–54 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4618
Physics Today 73 (11), 54 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4619

New Products

Physics Today 73 (11), 56–59 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4620

Obituaries

In Special Collection: Print Obituaries
Physics Today 73 (11), 60 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4621

Quick Study

Physics Today 73 (11), 62–63 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4622

Deformable circuits whose resistance changes when stretched could set the stage for bio-inspired robots and soft tactile logic devices.

Back Scatter

Physics Today 73 (11), 64 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4623
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