Gender Equity: No Silver Bullet but Lots of Ways to Help Chairs of 50 physics departments in the US and leaders from national laboratories gathered at ACP headquarters in May to discuss how to double the number of women in physics over the next 15 years
NSF's "Broader Impacts" Criterion Gets Mixed Reviews While recognizing the importance of promoting education, outreach and social benefits of their research, many scientists find the NSF criterion confusing, burdensome, or even counter-productive.
APS and Yale Honor J. Willard Gibbs Yale Physics Chair R. Shankar, APS Editor-in-Chief Gene Sprouse, and Yale Provost Andrew D. Hamilton explain the impact that J. Willard Gibbs had on Yale and on science.
JLab Experiment Pins Down Neutral Pion Lifetime A new measurement of the lifetime of the neutral pion is twice as precise as previous measurements, and further confirms our understanding of fundamental symmetry breaking.
New Fermilab Data Favor Light Higgs Experiments place new constraints on the mass of the Higgs particle, suggesting it might be within reach of the Tevatron.