Panelists Debate Science and Security The changing environment for national security includes a number of evolving threats for which the existing infrastructure is ill-equipped to address.
APS Members Write Congress, Then Drop In APS members made a strong showing in expressing the scientific community's concerns to their respective members of Congress in March and April.
CPU Phase I Report Asks Eleven Big Questions Eleven key questions at the interface between physics and astronomy form the basis of the Phase I report of the Committee on Physics and the Universe (CPU)
Session Analyzes Big Science Projects The Superconducting Super-Collider (SSC) was to be the largest purely scientific project in the history of physics.
Council Denounces Blanket Polygraphs In a statement passed at its April 27 meeting, the APS Council revisited the issue of the relationship between national security and science at the DOE weapons laboratories.
Centrifugal Forces Spawn New APS Units In the past five years, four new topical groups have formed, and some physicists have talked about forming even more in the future.
Postdoc Morale Rises but Problems Remain Morale and confidence among physics postdocs are a lot better than three and a half years ago, but there is still significant room for improvement.
Research News Brief Unexpected Physics Conditions in RHIC Collisions — Latest Investigations of Orion Nebula Lower Odds of Planet Formation — Black Holes May Take Space for a Spin
In Brief In April, the Ford Scientific Research Laboratory quietly celebrated its 50th anniversary.
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