What is the nature of neutrino mass ordering? A new neutrino detector in China, which began taking data in August, seeks to answer this question. #physics #astronomy

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Dept of Physics is hiring two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in the following fields ⚛️: - Quantum information science - Quantum computing - Materials for quantum technology Apply at Physics Today Jobs! #QuantumJobs #AcademicCareers

💼Now Hiring! The Dept of Physics at The City College of New York of the City University of New York invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor, anticipated to begin in Fall 2026. Apply at Physics Today Jobs! #PhysicsJobs #AcademicCareers

For decades, researchers thought that sea-level changes during the Pleistocene were caused by global ice sheets becoming increasingly large. But a team led by Peter Clark of @oregonstate.edu has now shown that ice sheets fluctuated in size throughout the epoch. #physics #geosciences

Steluta Dinca parlayed her academic research in renewable energy into an industry career, which involves testing the performance of solar shingles. #whatcanphysicistsdo #physics

Bottom-up self-assembly is a powerful approach to engineering at small scales. As Gregory Grason, W. Benjamin Rogers, and Michael Hagan illustrate, materials scientists use several strategies to formulate nanoscale components that can self-assemble into predetermined shapes with precise sizes.

To disperse their seeds, some plants launch them as ballistic projectiles. Our new Quick Study by Dwight Whitaker of @pomonacollege.bsky.social delves into how this dynamic mechanism works. #physics #biophysics

If you looked at the night sky in fall 2024, you may have seen comet C/2023 A3. Our newest #BackScatter is a photo of the comet taken by Binyu Wang and his teacher Li Shen, which won first place in the Natural category of the 2025 @aapthq.bsky.social#BackScatterHigh School Physics Photo Contest. #ITeachPhysics

Axel Hübner is a quantitative analyst at Deutsche Bank. He likes applying his physics knowledge to the real world. It helps that the work pays well. #physics #whatcanphysicistsdo

A curious composition of two isotopes in the kilometer-sized Ryugu asteroid has led researchers to a new interpretation of how water could have persisted in its parent body for a billion years. #astronomy #physics

Physicist Richard Garwin, a giant in the field, died in May 2025 at age 97. Famous for designing the first hydrogen bomb, Garwin was also a prominent adviser—and occasional critic—of the US government. Three of his close colleagues examine his career for @physicstoday.bsky.social. #physics #histSTM

How can a physics graduate get a job outside of academia? To understand what companies look for when hiring, Physics Today's Alex Lopatka recently spoke to scientists in the private sector. The big takeaway: soft skills like communication are often just as important as technical skills. #physics

Although the US was once the "crown jewel for science," the political and funding climate has changed the calculus for STEM scholars considering coming from abroad. #physics #science

As director of technology at a video software company, Eric Frederick programs software that can track particles and analyze ballistic flight, among other scenarios. His physics background is essential for helping customers collect data and create models. #whatcanphysicistsdo #physics

Curious about what makes Halloween chocolate so creamy and smooth? In 2006, food scientist Erich Windhab outlined the delectable physics behind cocoa-based desserts. #physics #halloween 🎃👻🍫

After Liting Xiao branded herself with a personal website and on LinkedIn, recruiters reached out. She soon moved from academia into the financial sector and found the switch to be easy: in both cases she was sifting through noisy data for patterns. #whatcanphysicistsdo #physics

this is such a great program & a really useful resource. @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social & @debrakolah.bsky.social - would be great if photos of Rice physicists were well-represented in the collection.

Do you take snapshots of your everyday life as a physical scientist? @aip.bsky.social is soliciting photos from scientists at all career stages and disciplines from around the world to broaden its 30 000+ photo collection, which is used frequently by historians. #physics #astronomy #histSTM

Jovana Andrejević Kim's graduate research examined how paper crumples. She's now a research scientist at CLO Virtual Fashion, where one of her recent projects focused on minimizing fabric waste. #whatcanphysicistsdo #physics

Learn more about the work of AIP's librarians & archivists to build a more contemporary and inclusive visual record of the physical sciences community in this new @physicstoday.bsky.social article -> "Archivists seek photos of today’s physical scientists" physicstoday.aip.org/news/archivi...

Makarand Paranjape wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a theoretical physicist, but his father recommended he do something more hands-on. He ended up in a physics department all the same, where he focuses on designing microscale biomedical devices. #physics #devices

Joyful Mdhluli woke up one day and realized she didn’t want to stay in academia. She now works at a nonprofit in Cape Town, South Africa, where she coordinates major projects that use astronomy for social benefit. #whatcanphysicistsdo #physics

In today's AIP History Weekly Edition, guest contributor Don Opitz looks at the multitudinous scholarly and professional contributions of the late Margaret Rossiter in creating a historiography of women in science. #HPS

Astrophysicist Josiah Schwab hasn’t looked back since he stepped off the academic ladder to become a software engineer at Waymo. Conversations with other physicists who had moved into industry helped him realize that he wanted to change directions. #whatcanphysicistsdo #physics

Interviews with early-career scientists reveal the ways that professional societies foster a sense of belonging, write @tjowens.bsky.social and Anne Marie Porter. They also provide opportunities for members to give back to the community. #physics #astronomy

When I wrote this "Quick Study" on Weakened Magnetic Braking for @physicstoday.bsky.social in 2018, we already had the physical picture largely correct – we just didn't have all of the evidence in hand to support it. Now we do. physicstoday.aip.org/quick-study/...

Roohi Dalal used to study the distribution of dark matter. Now, as deputy director of public policy at @aas.org, she interfaces with government officials to ensure that the astronomical community's needs are met. #whatcanphysicistsdo #physics #astronomy

Partly because programming wasn’t his thing, @funranium.bsky.social got interested in lab safety. He now has a master’s in health physics and works as a laser safety officer at the University of California, Berkeley. #whatcanphysicistsdo #physics

Just heard that Bert Schwarzschild passed away last week in his sleep at age 90. He had been ill for some time. Bert was one of the longest serving editors at Physics Today, and one of the best editors I knew at taking what looked like a garbled mess and turn it into something worthwhile to read.

The annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is happening this week. Back in June, meteorologist Michael Anand described how a unique wind pattern called the Albuquerque box makes the area uniquely well suited for hot-air ballooning. #BalloonFiesta #physics #ballooning

Coverage of a 2017 result by a group that included Omar Yaghi, one of this year's Nobel laureates in chemistry, unfortunately illustrated how inaccurate some science reporting can be. Johanna Miller discussed the episode in a 2020 column for Physics Today. #NobelPrize #science #scicomm

This year's Nobel - commentary and background, with a few more bonus MOF pictures of my own:

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

MOFs are pretty darn cool. Here's our story, in @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi are to be awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of metal-organic frameworks.” Here's our brief story on the prize, which includes links to our past coverage of the designer porous materials. #NobelPrize #chemistry #physics

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues" Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research u.afp.com/SmAy

Congratulations to Prof Omar Yaghi and his colleagues on winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their pioneering work on world-changing materials. 🧪 I caught up with Prof Yaghi a few weeks ago to chat all about his work. You can listen to our conversation below: pod.link/1296673906/e...

Have we written about MOFs before? Um, quite a bit: cen.acs.org/topics/mater...

From a 2019 interview with Kitagawa -- "it was common sense that organic materials could not make a stable porous structure. People thought we were doing “useless” research because they did not realize the potential of the seemingly trivial space inside the pores." pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Here’s a @science.org review Omar Yaghi published about 10 years ago 🧪 chemsky www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi are to be awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of metal-organic frameworks.” #NobelPrize

I love the quote from #Yale’s Dr. Schoelkopf that puts today’s #physics #NobelPrize in context. Mirroring the evolution of the #internet, quantum 3.0 will be the era of working #quantum #computing. With it, an explosion of knowledge that transforms how we discover, compute, & perhaps even think. 🔭🧪

Our story on today’s announcement of the 2025 #NobelPrize in #Physics has been updated. Learn more about the prizewinning research. #IYQ2025

And Martinis? His dad was a refugee from Yugoslavia. repository.aip.org/node/129661

Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️

🧪⚛️ The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics - a brief writeup about what is meant here by macroscopic quantum tunneling. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...

John Martinis’ wife didn’t wake him in the middle of the night (California time) to tell him he had won a Nobel. “I got up a little bit before 6. Then I opened my computer and saw John and Michel’s and my pictures." Story by @lizziegibney.bsky.social and me www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Physics Today also published a half-decent article on the history of Josephson junctions & superconducting computing in 2016: doi.org/10.1063/PT.3...

Michel Devoret also recalled John Clarke's "strict and intense training" in his 2021 @aip.bsky.social oral history interview: "Basically, John Clarke was coming to see us every day in the lab and was asking, 'What is new today?'" He was both jovial and respectful, besides being demanding."