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Strain guides the flow of excitons in 2D materials

Physics World

Using a technique known as strain engineering, researchers in the US and Germany have constructed an “excitonic wire” – a one-dimensional channel through which electron-hole pairs (excitons) can flow in a two-dimensional semiconductor like water through a pipe. The work could aid the development of a new generation of transistor-like devices.

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Horror and hope for Ukrainian scientists

Physics World

We scrolled through Telegram channels all day, monitoring the situation. We scrolled through Telegram channels all day, monitoring the situation. The Ukrainian government created official Telegram channels, where our president Volodymyr Zelensky reports every day about the current situation. Our university began to stir.

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ClearWater Conservancy Names Elizabeth Crisfield Executive Director

PA Environment Daily

Crisfield graduated from James Madison University with a bachelor’s degree in physics in 1994, received a Master of Science in Agronomy (soil physics) in 1999 and then received her doctorate from The Pennsylvania State University in Geography in 2012. She assumes the presidency this year. Click Here to support their work.

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Frozen detonation could enable hypersonic flight

Physics World

If harnessed, however, it could be channelled to achieve hypersonic flight for future interplanetary travel and ultrahigh-speed intercontinental travel on Earth. They report their results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The post Frozen detonation could enable hypersonic flight appeared first on Physics World.

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Competitive not cut-throat: what baseball’s Ted Williams tells us about physicists’ instincts

Physics World

Williams, who died in 2002 aged 83, eventually published all his advice in a book, The Science of Hitting , a copy of which sits on my shelves. I was reminded of Williams by a letter in response to my May column about physics teachers and students who participate in BattleBots , a TV show about robots that compete to smash each other up. “Do

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Where’d the wood go? The importance of wood in rivers and how we can learn to appreciate it

HumanNature

Hyporheic temperature dynamics and heat exchange near channel-spanning logs. Influence of vertical channel change associated with wood accumulations on delineating channel migration zones, Washington, USA. Large woody debris, physical process, and riparian forest development in montane river networks of the Pacific Northwest.

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Why we need to stop gaslighting minority physics students

Physics World

At Waterloo – a comprehensive university with a strong reputation in science, mathematics and engineering – I was part of a large international student population that was primarily from Asia and the Caribbean, but the exam was clearly written with North Americans in mind.

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