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- Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated the trajectories for some of @NASA's most historic missions, turns 101 years old today physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.…
- More than two dozen countries have pledged to triple global nuclear energy production by 2050 to combat climate change. But skeptics say the cost, risks , and snail’s pace make the approach a nonstarter—and a distraction from renewable energy. doi.org/10.1063/pt.odj…
- Biological energy systems and electrical power grids differ in scale and discipline but work similarly in many ways. In this month’s issue, explore how electrical engineers could learn from biological systems to improve the smart grids of the future.
- Erkcan Özcan wears many hats: Particle physicist at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. Acting head of Turkey’s Nuclear Energy Research Institute. Cofounder of a lab to manufacture industrial components. Science popularizer on YouTube. physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.…
- A half-century after her historic detection of pulsars, Jocelyn Bell Burnell is to receive the most financially lucrative prize in science—and she plans to donate the entire sum to support aspiring women and minority physicists buff.ly/2MRFbrY
- Anti-Blackness is pervasive in academia, and physics is no exception. UC Berkeley physicist @CDBrownII details his experiences with interpersonal and systemic anti-Black racism and lays out actions that can start dismantling it
- Born #OTD 1956 in Decatur, Alabama, Mae Jemison @maejemison is a physician, engineer, and entrepreneur who was the first woman of color to go into space buff.ly/2EtWBqS
- Falling dandelion seeds produce a special type of vortex that slows their descent and extends the range of their wind-based travel buff.ly/2sg8ozS
- Born #OTD 1977 in Tehran, Iran, mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani was the first woman to win the field’s prestigious Fields Medal buff.ly/2Kt6NPj
- #OTD 50 years ago, Jocelyn Bell (later Burnell) discovered a pulsed radio emission that, it was later determined, came from a rapidly rotating neutron star called a pulsar buff.ly/2Bv3D9h
