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How should scientists talk about AI systems? Here is how we will approach the editing of such language to ensure clarity, accuracy and avoid misinterpretation and anthropomorphism.
A glass of your preferred carbonated drink — whether beer, champagne or soda — holds some fascinating physics. This month, we share some of our favourite bubbly phenomena.
100 years ago, Arthur Compton measured a wavelength shift in an X-ray scattering experiment, which provided direct evidence for the particle theory of light. Today, Compton scattering continues to be a useful tool for research and medical applications.
Erin Barker and Ben Lillie, co-founders of Story Collider, share how the organization uses the power of storytelling to reveal the human side of science.
Faced with the knowledge that her students would bear the brunt of the climate crisis, theoretical physicist Vandana Singh looked for ways to integrate climate education into her classroom. She advocates for a holistic approach that integrates science, transdisciplinarity, justice and action.
Physics has an undeniable environmental cost, which sits uncomfortably with the climate and sustainability concerns of many physicists. How can you respond?
Marie-Therese Huebsch discusses how cluster-multipole theory can be combined with spin-density-functional theory in VASP to probe magnetism based just on the crystal structure of a material.
What can three ambitious physics experiments, currently under construction or in the start of their operational phase, show us about big science in China?
Reducing resource usage will improve the environmental impact of high-performance computing — but doing so can clash with the science goals of funders. Computational physicist Peter Skands explains how he approached the conflict.
Inexpensive air quality monitors may open up pollution monitoring to the wider public. What can the physics of measurement science tell us about how devices need to perform, and how can standardization help?
A paper in Physical Review X presents a method for numerically generating data sequences that are as likely to be observed under a power law as a given observed dataset.
A study in PNAS suggests that symmetric structures in nature are preferred because they require less information to encode — they are more compressible.