Physics WorldPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/27
Matin Durrani
{"title":"The power of diversity","authors":"Matin Durrani","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/27","url":null,"abstract":"Keith Burnett, the current president of the Institute of Physics, talks to Matin Durrani about his career in physics, the value of universities to a modern economy and how the IOP’s new strategy seeks to make physics open to all.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141567808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics WorldPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/26
James McKenzie
{"title":"A wonder at last","authors":"James McKenzie","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/26","url":null,"abstract":"Strong, light and with amazing electronic properties, graphene has always been touted as the “wonder material”. But two decades after it was first isolated, James McKenzie believes that graphene is finally delivering on its promise.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141567809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics WorldPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/25
Sidney Perkowitz
{"title":"From pulsars to the Shaw Prize: a family quest","authors":"Sidney Perkowitz","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/25","url":null,"abstract":"Astrophysicists Maura McLaughlin and Duncan Lorimer talk to Sidney Perkowitz about everything from their pioneering pulsar research to building a life together and winning the 2023 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141567893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics WorldPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/21
Robin Britton
{"title":"Going for no growth","authors":"Robin Britton","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/21","url":null,"abstract":"A response to the Forum article “Only degrowth can save us” by Johan Hansson (April 2024), who claimed the world will not meet its climate targets if we continue our “obsession” with growing the global economy.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141567894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics WorldPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/12
Michael Banks
{"title":"US DIII-D National Fusion Facility resumes operations","authors":"Michael Banks","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/12","url":null,"abstract":"The DIII-D National Fusion Facility in San Diego has completed eight months of upgrades that will help researchers to control and study fusion plasmas.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141567903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics WorldPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/18
Tim Palmer
{"title":"We still need a climate ‘CERN’","authors":"Tim Palmer","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/18","url":null,"abstract":"Tim Palmer says that we must pool our resources to produce high-resolution climate models that societies can use, before it is too late.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141567900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics WorldPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/15
Michael Allen
{"title":"Conference travel on par with Africa’s per-capita carbon footprint","authors":"Michael Allen","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/15","url":null,"abstract":"Travel to more than 350 astronomy meetings in 2019 resulted in the emission of 42,500 tonnes of carbon dioxide.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141567902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics WorldPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/13
Michael Banks
{"title":"Researchers split on the use of AI in peer review","authors":"Michael Banks","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/13","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers are divided over whether artificial intelligence (AI) is having a positive or negative impact on peer review.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141567906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics WorldPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/30
Matin Durrani
{"title":"Ask me anything: Florence Downs","authors":"Matin Durrani","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/30","url":null,"abstract":"Florence Downs is an editor at Ingenia, the Royal Academy of Engineering’s free-to-read print and online magazine for young people interested in STEM. She studied physics at the University of Bristol, UK, before doing a DPhil in synthetic biology at the University of Oxford.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141567806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics WorldPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/17
Matin Durrani
{"title":"Incoming value","authors":"Matin Durrani","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/17","url":null,"abstract":"Free movement of scientists – and students – is vital for the lifeblood of science","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"366 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141567901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}