EPN’s ‘Physics in Daily Life’ column available in new book
“This is a book for curious minds: these pages hold the wonders of a candle flame, the secret of surviving the sauna heat, and the mysteries of bubbles and balloons. Find answers to questions like ‘Why is water blue? How do we localize sound? Why is ice so slippery?’ and ‘What is the speed of falling raindrops?’”
Full of charm and intellectual curiosity, Jo Hermans’ delightful ‘Physics in Daily Life’ columns – a staple feature of Europhysics News [EPN] – have finally been published together in a new compendium…
Featured in EPN
Featuring in the latest issue of EPN:
A brief history of the Coriolis force
The Quark-Gluon Plasma, a nearly perfect fluid
Wind energy research: development of advanced design tools
e-EPS and EPN: the voices of the EPS
Dear Readers,
Communication is a vital cornerstone of any efficient organisation. The fact that the European Physical Society [EPS] has now – in addition to its traditional journal, Europhysics News [EPN] – a digital newsletter, e-EPS, is a sure sign that the EPS is both efficient and rooted in today’s digital world. In e-EPS, readers can find up-to-date news from the EPS and beyond, conference announcements and much more…
Featured in EPN
Featuring in the latest issue of EPN:
A new spin on Earth’s deep mantle
by J. Badro
Ratchets from the cold: Brownian motors with cold atoms in optical lattices
by F. Renzoni…
Featured in EPN
Featuring in the recent issue of EPN:
Space Exploration Technologies
Pegases – a new promising electric propulsion concept
by A. Aanesland, S. Mazouffre & P. Chabert
‘Space represents a unique vantage point for both exploring the universe and looking down onto our own planet, enabling major discoveries with regard to our origins and the environment we live in. To observe, communicate…’
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Featuring in the upcoming issue of EPN:
Einstein’s witches’ sabbath: the first Solvay council on physics
by F. Berends & Franklin Lambert
‘One hundred years ago, on 29 October 1911, a very special event took place in Brussels: the opening of the first Solvay Council, a meeting which would become a milestone in the history of modern physics…’
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Featuring in the upcoming issue of EPN:
ECHOPHYSICS: The first European center for the history of physics in Poellau (Austria)
By H. Kahlert, H. Krenn, & L. Wilmes
‘In 2010, the Austrian scientific community celebrated the foundation of the Vienna Institute of Radium Research in 1910, then affiliated with the former Imperial and Royal Academy of Sciences of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy…’
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Featuring in the upcoming issue of EPN:
3D-integrated all-solid-state batteries
by P.H.L. Notten
‘Electrification of our increasingly sophisticated society will proliferate rapidly during this century. A key element…
EPS Awards, Fellows & Honorary Members
The EPS is pleased to announce the award of the Gero Thomas Memorial Medal to Claude Sébenne, for his significant and long-term contributions to the EPS as editor of Europhysics News.
The EPS Council has recently approved the following individuals as EPS Fellows…
