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- The stability of the bicycle (2006) http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/59/9/10.1063/1.2364246 6 comments
- New paper claims that the EmDrive doesn't violate conservation of momentum http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/adva/6/6/10.1063/1.4953807 4 comments
- Einstein versus Peer Review... http://scitation.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_58/iss_9/43_1.shtml 7 comments
- Computational biophysicists use a new open source computational tool called fABMACS for molecular dynamics simulations to see beyond static images of proteins to more efficiently understand how these molecules function, which could ultimately speed up the drug discovery process. http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jcp/145/15/10.1063/1.4964776 3 comments science
- A universal law of procrastination http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/69/2/10.1063/pt.3.3064 4 comments science
- Why Ice Is Slippery: "A thin (nanometer) surface layer of the ice may be in a mixed state with small ice-like and water-like domains, which fluctuate rapidly in space and time." http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jcp/143/22/10.1063/1.4936299 26 comments science
- From supercolliders to robot lungs (Xbox inventor and now physicist behind the end of tobacco) http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/pt.5.9049;jsessionid=1ntkveesfnsw7.x-aip-live-02 3 comments science
- An ultra-thin broadband active frequency selective surface absorber for ultrahigh-frequency applications - Chinese scientists develop radar-absorbing active “stealth” material which can be tuned to absorb different bandwidths http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jap/118/18/10.1063/1.4934683 45 comments science
- University of Sydney researchers attempting to build a desktop-sized Fusion Reactor that actually generates power http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pop/22/10/10.1063/1.4933213 7 comments science
- Twenty climatologists urge federal investigation of climate scoffers http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/pt.5.8139;jsessionid=1imt0sdtrrnc3.x-aip-live-03 43 comments politics
- With relatively very little funding, Dr Lerner's Lawrenceville Plasma Physics focus fusion lab has produced very exciting results. http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pop/19/3/10.1063/1.3694746 3 comments technology
- Multifunctional surfaces produced by femtosecond laser pulses, i.e. water repellent metal. http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jap/117/3/10.1063/1.4905616 8 comments science
- Saturn's location measured to within 1 mile http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/news-picks/saturn-s-location-measured-to-within-1-mile-a-news-pick-post?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=feed%3A+pt6dailyedition+%28physics+today+daily+edition%29 58 comments science
- Bats use echolocation to find food, but their biological sonar can travel only over a limited distance. At least one bat species may have found a way to overcome that distance limitation by eavesdropping on other bats http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/news-picks/bats-may-extend-hunting-range-by-listening-to-other-bats-a-news-pick-post?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=feed%3A+pt6dailyedition+%28physics+today+daily+edition%29 4 comments science
- The measurement Einstein deemed impossible http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/68/1/10.1063/pt.3.2665?utm_medium=email&utm_source=physics+today&utm_campaign=5177509_january+2015%3A+table+of+contents&dm_i=1y69,32yzp,irs3t4,b2bko,1#opticaltweezers-1 4 comments science
- Even if you've reached the limit set by Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, you can still boost the precision of a quantum measurement by engineering lower precision in the complimentary quantum measurement. http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/67/11/10.1063/pt.3.2596 13 comments science
- How Does Wind Turbine Noise Affect People? http://scitation.aip.org/content/asa/journal/atdy/10/1/10.1121/1.4870173 3 comments science
- US senate orders withdrawal from ITER project, the most advanced fusion experimental reactor on the planet based in France. http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/pt.5.1022 79 comments europe
- There are no particles, there are only fields http://scitation.aip.org/content/aapt/journal/ajp/81/3/10.1119/1.4789885 11 comments science
- Ernst Mach on bodies and buckets: the scientist-philosopher’s critique of Newtonian mechanics was informed, in part, by a startling phenomenon he experienced as the train he was riding negotiated a sharp bend http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/66/12/10.1063/pt.3.2214 3 comments philosophy
- Ban on US–China space-program ties means missed opportunities for NASA http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/66/12/10.1063/pt.3.2210 3 comments science
- Quantum mechanics without wavefunctions http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jcp/136/3/10.1063/1.3680558?track=njcpnov13&dm_i=1xps,1zwfo,c9r1lg,76m3e,1 25 comments science
- There has been no increase in normalized damage from hurricanes since 1900. Hurricane landfalls have not increased, contrary to what an Inconvenient Truth suggested. http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/getabsservlet?prog=normal&id=nhrefo000009000001000029000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes&ref=no 8 comments science
- The 63Myr cycle in fossil diverisity may be explained by the Solar System's oscillations about the Milky Way http://scitation.aip.org/journals/doc/phtoad-ft/vol_60/iss_10/18_1.shtml 7 comments science