Opinion
International students are in the crosshairs of new, destructive policies. Armed with knowledge and courage, advisors and colleagues can help.
Physicists often regard writing with dread, yet they can grow into stronger writers by embracing bad first drafts and trusting the evolutionary power of self-editing.
Work in academia is like a gas. It will fill whatever space you give it, and I gave a vast amount of space to my job.
Some nations are trying to shut the doors of international collaboration. Scientists can keep them open.
Particle physics used to rely mostly on accelerators and theory. Not anymore.
Physics education needs humans — but maybe not for everything.
Parker’s work helped pave the way for other pioneering Black women in physics, like Willie Hobbs Moore and Shirley Ann Jackson.
Physicists have rallied against nuclear weapons for 80 years — and must do so again.
For the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, scientists and students can help with festivities.
Readers respond to Cara Giovanetti’s op-ed on faculty’s tendency to overemphasize careers in academia.
Great research in physics is measured, rewarded, and shared. Why isn’t mentorship?
A reader responds to recent federal proposals on research security.
Professors’ "academia or bust" attitudes sway students — and hurt their careers.
In the biomechanics of running, science and art converge.
Centuries ago, all scientists were interdisciplinary. We can learn from that approach today.
Scientists have used their expertise and unique perspectives to shape public opinion and policy for decades. The tradition must go on.
A letter from Cameron Reed.
Where do the boundaries of physics begin and end? The debate has persisted for more than a century.
Governments and funding agencies have promised the public unfettered open access to research. Scientists could foot the bill.
Two-year colleges help millions and boost the U.S. workforce. We neglect them at our peril.
It took something seemingly unscientific, dance, to make me a stronger science communicator and engineer.
A female physicist in a male-dominated profession, Hilde Levi's life story spanned over an extraordinary 50-year career which ranged from biophysics to radiocarbon dating.
To better analyze data produced by experiments, data scientists, with the help of machine learning, are becoming invaluable to physics.
The absence of important processes in the models leads to a systematic underestimate of the rate and magnitude of climate change.
The physical underpinnings of atmospheric science, climate change, and energy technology dictate that climate science is physics.
Without common-sense immigration reform, the brightest STEM students will look elsewhere — and the US will lose out.
Discover the captivating world of high-Tc superconductivity through a thought-provoking letter to the editor.
The article about the 2022 Physics Nobel lectures includes a couple of misleading statements which I would like to correct.
Unveiling the hidden costs of alcohol in professional settings. A wake-up call for physicists to reshape socializing norms.
A harmless leak at a national lab holds important lessons for combating misinformation today.
We have to present science as science and not as some set of dogma that have to be accepted by the people on the authority of their “betters.”
Scientists are gaining a solid understanding of the physics that underlies many phenomena of the living world.
Thanks to the support of physicists, societies like APS, and the US Department of Energy, scientists in Ukraine persist.
Kids are natural scientists. Why aren’t more adults?
To reverse the dangerous direction of misinformation, we scientists must go straight to the public.
To invest in science, we need to invest in tomorrow’s scientists. Let’s start by paying them wages that meet the cost of living.
A reader recounts his battle with freshman physics at Caltech.
Newton’s derivation of Earth’s figure are part of a field later known as geodesy.
PhD physics programs often lead to a culture of isolation among graduate students, but support groups can help to promote connection with others.
Data show that teaching is a great career option, but negativity and misinformation about teaching is pervasive.
Emma McKay, quantum physicist, speaks about ethical questions regarding the application of quantum computers.
Janet Guthrie became the first woman race car driver to qualify for and start in the Daytona 500 and Indianapolis 500.
International education brings together the physics community, supports nations whose scientists are underrepresented in the field, making physics education and research truly global.
Constructive and respectful criticism, without harassment and intimidation, is critical for advancing knowledge.
Creating welcoming environments where all physicists can contribute is essential to advancing knowledge and addressing scientific challenges.
Misinformation has emerged as a grave meta-threat to both equity and civilization.
There is an urgent need to engage and increase the participation of traditionally underrepresented students, whose talents in physics have largely been untapped.
APS has a history of assisting Ukraine, and we are again being asked for help by our sister organization and colleagues.
In presenting physics to nonscientists, it is imperative to recognize that most women have severe anxiety and fear of failure concerning science and math.
To be pro-woman is therefore to claim women's equal value, to articulate the ramifications of this principle, and to attempt to realize it, in one's life, through one's work, or in one's society.