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Europhysics News, Vol. 47/1 – January/February 2016 can be downloaded on the magazine’s website.
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Rosetta’s journey to Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
How many gold atoms make gold metal?
Light – cosmic messages from the past
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2014 Nobel Prizes in Physics and in Chemistry by L. Bergé
Showering from high-energy cosmic raysby H. Buisman, D.Wilke de Souza and J. Steijger
Consumer participation in power market balancingby P. Lund
Extra-terrestrial Life in the Milky Way Galaxy? by N.J. Evans II
A new publication frequency for EPNVictor R. Velasco, EPN Editor
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Unravelling the mystery of the Earth magnetic field by Henri-Claude Nataf
Mental ability and common sense in an artificial society by Krzysztof Malarz and Krzysztof Kułakowski
Giant impact: accretion and evolution of the Moon by J. Geiss, M.C.E. Huber and A.P. Rossi
A new publication frequency for Europhysics News
In response to the decision at 2014 Council to save production costs and to insure that the magazine remains spread widely in Europe, it was agreed to change the publication frequency of Europhysics News.
In 2014 and 2015, Europhysics News will move from 6 printed issues to 5 printed issues. In this way we hope to satisfy the interests of authors and advertisers and achieve the sustainability of the publication.
Europhysics News constantly evolves to better fit the needs and expectations of the readers. The fifth issue will be larger (32 + 16 pages) than the other issues to accommodate extra features and…
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The lustre of pearls
First result from the AMS experiment: the beginning of a rich cosmic ray program
Does water foam exist in microgravity?
Symmetry of quasi one-dimensional systems: line groups and applications…
Executive Committee Meeting Summary
For its January meeting, the EPS Executive Committee met at The Institute of Physics [IOP] premises, Portland Place, London, on the same day as the IOP council. During a joint lunch, the EPS president gave a short overview of EPS’s activities to the Council and there were fruitful discussions between IOP Council and EPS Executive Committee members.
Traditionally, a large fraction of discussions in January is turned towards the preparation of agenda items for the EPS Council meeting in spring. The preliminary accounts 2013 are part of this, as well as on-going activities such as…
Victor R. Velasco is the new Editor of Europhysics News
After 8 years of hard work, Claude Sébenne’s term as editor of Europhysics News [EPN] has come to an end. The EPS welcomes his successor, Victor R. Velasco from the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid [ICMM]. e-EPS spoke with him. Find out his ambitions for the magazine.
In few sentences, what is your background in science?
I studied Physics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid [UAM], and got my Ph.D in 1979. I did Post-Doctoral…
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Nobel 2012: trapped ions and photons
A Tribute to Max von Laue
Sensitive magnetometers based on dark states …
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The seven months that changed physics: The discovery of the Higgs Boson and its implications for High Energy Physics
By Guido Tonelli
The adventure of quasicrystals: a sucessful multidisciplinary effort – By D. Gratias…
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…
