Emily Blevins

1 month ago | physicstoday.scitation.org | Lindsay McKenzie |Jacob Taylor |Johanna Miller |Emily Blevins

Following an executive order issued by President Trump in February, multiple government agencies began eliminating science advisory committees. The order, titled “Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy,” calls for shutting down specific advisory committees and directs the heads of some agencies and departments to identify additional committees for termination.

1 month ago | physicstoday.scitation.org | Toni Feder |Johanna Miller |Emily Blevins

Before Martha-Elizabeth Baylor went to Kenyon College in Ohio, she was planning to study paleontology. When she got there, though, that major wasn’t an option. “I identify as first generation, and I didn’t know anything about college,” she says.

1 month ago | physicstoday.scitation.org | Clare Zhang |Johanna Miller |Emily Blevins

The NSF budget for major construction projects is set to be eliminated for fiscal year 2025 after President Trump canceled some of the emergency funds that were appropriated by Congress in March. Top Senate appropriators argue that the action is illegal and puts at risk all $12.4 billion of the funding, which is allocated to NASA and other agencies.

1 month ago | physicstoday.scitation.org | Randall D. Kamien |Johanna Miller |Emily Blevins

Superconductors1 and other exotics2 Self-learning networks3 and nanorobotics4 Various planets surrounded by rings5 These are a few of my favorite things Landau and Lifshitz6–15 and extra dimensions16,17 (Don’t forget Einstein’s summation conventions18) Structural color on butterfly wings19 These are a few of my favorite things Confluent membranes all covered with live cells20 Snowflakes that stick to the spheres21 and the micelles Unification as promised by strings22 These are a few of my...

1 month ago | physicstoday.scitation.org | Jenessa Duncombe |Johanna Miller |Emily Blevins

The top priorities of the US ocean sciences community through 2035 are a continued investment in basic, curiosity-driven research and a unified effort to improve ocean forecasts to meet national and global environmental challenges. Those and other recommendations are detailed in Forecasting the Ocean: The 2025–2035 Decade of Ocean Science, a survey of the field that was conducted over 18 months by a committee of US researchers.