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Editorial - Twitter Physics! Twitter has over 280 million active users who send around 500 million tweets a day. These are impressive statistics, and we all hear regularly of some news or controversy that starts and spreads via a tweet. Given the extensive reach of the Twitter network, one would think that it might be useful for serious science. However, most scientists tend to think that Twitter is at best not especially relevant ... [read more]	EPS Historic Site – the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory and the Instituut-Lorentz On 9 February 2015, the European Physical Society [EPS], the Nederlandse Natuurkundige Vereniging – the Netherlands Physical Society [NNV] and the University of Leiden unveiled a plaque commemorating the former location of the ... [read more]
The new team of the Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics commission (C15) at IUPAP At the 28th general assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, held in Singapore November 5-7 ... [read more]	International Year of Light news Opening Ceremony in Morocco On 26 February the Opening Ceremony of the International Year of Light and Light-based ... Opening Ceremonies in Europe Read about the Opening Ceremonies of IYL 2015 in several European countries. [read more]	LIGHT2015 Awards The International Year of Light in Europe 2015 [LIGHT2015] is an outreach and education initiative – coordinated by the European Physical Society and funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Programme. It promotes the importance of photonics to young people, entrepreneurs, and the general public in Europe during the ... [read more]
EPS Council 2015 The annual meeting of the EPS Council took place on 27-28 March 2015 at the Physik Zentrum in Bad Honnef, Germany. It was attended by around 50 delegates, representing EPS Member Societies, Associate Members ... [read more]	Outreach to high school students The University Jaume I of Castellón regularly organizes career orientation sessions for high school students called “Connecta amb la ciència”,which publicises the opportunities ... [read more]	Workshop on physics education at ICTP, Trieste The International Center of Theoretical Physics [ICTP], the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural ... [read more]
The first ever photograph of light as both a particle and wave Light behaves both as a particle and as a wave. Since the days of Einstein, scientists have been trying to directly observe both of these aspects of light at the same time. Now, scientists at EPFL have succeeded in ... [read more]	Novel Technologies bag the 2015 King Faisal International Prize The King Faisal Foundation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has awarded the 2015 King Faisal International Prize (including endowment of US$200,000) ... [read more]	Governments Agree the Negotiating Text for the Paris Climate Agreement A key milestone towards a new, universal agreement on climate change was reached in ... [read more]
FAceS project – call for participation Since 1 March 2014, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the credit line “performance evaluation in science,” the project “The ... [read more]	Featured in EPN [read more]	Executive and Staff activity in February 2015 The EPS works to support its members. Click here for the list of the activities of EPS Executive Committee and staff for the last month… [read more]
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Editorial - Twitter Physics!

Twitter has over 280 million active users who send around 500 million tweets a day. These are impressive statistics, and we all hear regularly of some news or controversy that starts and spreads via a tweet. Given the extensive reach of the Twitter network, one would think that it might be useful for serious science. However, most scientists tend to think that Twitter is at best not especially relevant ...