Pub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/27
Matin Durrani
Keith Burnett, the current president of the Institute of Physics, talks to Matin Durrani about his career in physics, the value of universities to a modern economy and how the IOP’s new strategy seeks to make physics open to all.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/26
James McKenzie
Strong, light and with amazing electronic properties, graphene has always been touted as the “wonder material”. But two decades after it was first isolated, James McKenzie believes that graphene is finally delivering on its promise.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/25
Sidney Perkowitz
Astrophysicists Maura McLaughlin and Duncan Lorimer talk to Sidney Perkowitz about everything from their pioneering pulsar research to building a life together and winning the 2023 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/21
Robin Britton
A response to the Forum article “Only degrowth can save us” by Johan Hansson (April 2024), who claimed the world will not meet its climate targets if we continue our “obsession” with growing the global economy.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/12
Michael Banks
The DIII-D National Fusion Facility in San Diego has completed eight months of upgrades that will help researchers to control and study fusion plasmas.
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{"title":"We still need a climate ‘CERN’","authors":"Tim Palmer","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/18","url":null,"abstract":"Tim Palmer says that we must pool our resources to produce high-resolution climate models that societies can use, before it is too late.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141567900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/15
Michael Allen
Travel to more than 350 astronomy meetings in 2019 resulted in the emission of 42,500 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
2019 年,参加 350 多场天文学会议的旅行导致排放了 4.25 万吨二氧化碳。
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Pub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/13
Michael Banks
Researchers are divided over whether artificial intelligence (AI) is having a positive or negative impact on peer review.
对于人工智能(AI)对同行评议的影响是正面还是负面,研究人员意见不一。
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Pub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/30
Matin Durrani
Florence Downs is an editor at Ingenia, the Royal Academy of Engineering’s free-to-read print and online magazine for young people interested in STEM. She studied physics at the University of Bristol, UK, before doing a DPhil in synthetic biology at the University of Oxford.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/17
Matin Durrani
Free movement of scientists – and students – is vital for the lifeblood of science
科学家和学生的自由流动对科学的生命力至关重要
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