Physics Library News

Sixty Symbols

Sixty symbols : videos about the symbols of physics and astronomy - The University of Nottingham has produced this collection of sixty videos narrated by scientists from the University explaining symbols used in physics and astronomy. A further sixty videos are planned.

AIP UniPHY

AIP UniPHY Offers New Discovery and Networking Site for the Physical Sciences - Researchers in the physical sciences now have a new tool for communicating with colleagues, identifying potential collaborators, and keeping up with competitors. The American Institute of Physics launched its pioneering new website, AIP UniPHY (aipuniphy.org) - a first-of-its-kind scientific networking platform for physical scientists. AIP UniPHY enables fast and accurate knowledge retrieval and allows individuals to search for and locate documents, researchers, trends, and new discoveries more quickly, precisely, and thoroughly than ever before.

RSS feeds now available from arXiv

Daily updated RSS news feed pages are now available for all active subject areas within arXiv. The URL for each category is constructed by appending the category name to http://arxiv.org/rss/. For example, the URL for the RSS page for the High Energy Theory archive is http://export.arxiv.org/rss/hep-th. More information is available at http://arxiv.org/help/rss.

Oral Histories at the Niels Bohr Library & Archives

Oral Histories at the Niels Bohr Library & Archives - A free online archive of hundreds of historical interviews with the 20th century's greatest physicists has now been launched to aid the research of science writers, academic scholars, teachers, and students. The resource, created by the American Institute of Physics' Niels Bohr Library & Archives, contains both written transcripts and audio recordings of oral histories that date back fifty years. This archive draws on four decades of interviews conducted by the staff of AIP’s Center for History of Physics.

Bright Recruits

Bright Recruits is the dedicated new jobs website from IOP Publishing. If you're looking for a career where you can make the most of your physics degree, you can search this site for a range of jobs in which your skills will be highly sought after.

Portal to the Universe

As a high-tech website embracing Web 2.0 technologies, the Portal to the Universe aims to become a one-stop-shop for astronomy news. The site features news, blogs, video podcasts, audio podcasts, images, videos and more.

2008 Nobel Prize in Physics

The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics was announced on Tuesday, October 7. The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded with one half to Yoichiro Nambu, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics" and the other half jointly to Makoto Kobayashi, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Japan and Toshihide Maskawa, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, and Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."

Large Hadron Collider

The Machine at the End of the Universe - in July 18 issue of the Chronicle of Higher education, there were several stories about the Large Hadron Collider at Cern.  Also see: Searching for Extra Dimensions and the Ultimate Theory and Has Physics Spent Itself Into a Corner?  See me for the username and password to read the full articles.

WorldWide Telescope

The WorldWide Telescope is the culmination of years of work by researchers at Microsoft, and the Web site and free downloadable software are available at www.WorldWideTelescope.org.  There are many online astronomy sites, but astronomers say the Microsoft entry sets a new standard in three-dimensional representation of vast amounts data plucked from space telescopes, the ease of navigation, the visual experience and features like guided tours narrated by experts.  The WorldWide Telescope project spans astronomy, education and computing. Educators hope its rich images, animation and design for self-navigation will help entice computer-gaming young people into astronomy and science in general.

Particle Physics Publishing

Particle physicists push for publishing changes - The high-energy physics community wants all of its published research to be freely available to everybody.  Jens Vigen reports on how a radical new initiative hopes to achieve this.