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Women in Physics in Muslim-Majority Countries https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/33 June 1, 2021 Reem Abouemera “Unfortunately, science as a field, to many, is associated with masculinity, and I wanted to challenge this myth,” said Heba EL-Deghaidy, chair of the Department of International and Comparative Education at AUCs School of Humanities and Social Sciences. A prevalent myth claims that women are “no good” at physics, but just taking EL-Deghaidy as an ...

University of New Mexico Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs James Holloway announced today the appointment of Dr. Arash Mafi as interim dean of UNM’s College of Arts and Sciences. Mafi takes over for Mark Peceny, who has served as...

  On Sept. 22, 2017, a ghostly particle ejected from a far distant supermassive black hole zipped down from the sky and through the ice of Antarctica at just below the speed of light, with an energy of some 300 trillion electron volts, nearly 50 times the energy delivered by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the biggest particle accelerator on Earth.  IceCube Neutrino Observatory The cosmic invader –a messenger from the depths of extragalactic space, carrying secrets from some of the most ...

“The April 2021 issue of Physics World arrived this morning after the usual month in the post to Ireland. I don’t know why it takes so long. My copy of Private Eye usually takes just a couple of days. Anyway, there is an interview in the latest issue with Steve Hall, the former Managing Director of IOP Publishing who stepped down last month …” (more) [ Share this:

Date Time Cum Laude for light emitting silicon Chips based on light would revolutionize microelectronics. Elham Fadaly laid the basis for this ‘holy grail’. She managed to let silicon emit light, by forcing it into a new shape. Her work was proclaimed Breakthrough of the Year by Physics World and she received the Nanotechnology Young Researcher award. Fadaly obtained her PhD Cum Laude on April 16 th at the department of Applied Physics. Silicon is a powerful material pervading our everyday ...

Coffee, Donuts, and Semiconductors Physics 14, 61 During the Semiconductors for Breakfast meeting, researchers woke up to talks on light-emitting nanorods and hairy cavities. E. Fadaly/Eindhoven University of Technology Recent work shows that nanorods of silicon-germanium can emit light, unlike pure silicon crystals. Researchers grew these semiconductor materials with the necessary hexagonal crystal structure by seeding them on hexagonally shaped nanowires. E. Fadaly/Eindhoven University of Te...

6 April 2021 Swedish researchers have produced a battery made of ultra-lightweight materials, including carbon fibre that works as an electrode, a conductor, and a load-bearing structure, in a breakthrough that could pave the way for lighter, more efficient electric cars and planes. The breakthrough in the long-running quest to develop “massless energy storage” was reported late last month, as the result of a collaboration between Chalmers University of Technology and KTH Royal Institute of...

The Mysteries of Stephen Hawking’s Universe Why did “A Brief History of Time” make its author the most famous scientist in the world? IAN BERRY/MAGNUM April 6, 2021 The last time Stephen Hawking was ever uncertain about his fame was before a lecture in Cambridge, in the winter of 1988. Even then, really, he should have been in no doubt. In previous years, he’d been profiled by Vanity Fair and The New York Times Magazine, and the BBC had run shows about his work. Then, that past April...

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have produced a structural battery that performs ten times better than all previous versions. It

The effort to detect gravitational waves apparently won’t require additional dedicated equipment to be installed aboard space probes, since such craft “already have...