American Physical Society

09/03/2026

Changes to the U.S. visa policy are affecting international students, scholars, and the physics departments that support them.

Join us Sept. 30 at 3 p.m. ET for a webinar with immigration attorney Andrew Rodgers about the new duration of status rule and what it could mean for you.

Register now: https://go.aps.org/46BITMA

09/02/2026

A superhydride can superconduct at high temperatures and pressures — but what makes it outperform similar materials? A new Physical Review B study gets closer to the answer.

Researchers show how scandium reshapes the electronic structure and hydrogen-hydrogen bonds in LaSc₂H₂₄, strengthening the interactions that drive superconductivity. The work also points toward a possible route to even higher superconducting temperatures.

Read more: https://go.aps.org/4wYmHqE

09/01/2026

Welcome, Ariel!

We’re excited to share that Ariel Amir is now the chief editor of PRX Life.

Ariel is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His group works at the intersection of physics, applied mathematics, and biology to uncover the quantitative laws that govern living systems.

We look forward to Ariel bringing his unique perspective on the physics of living systems to PRX Life. Read more: https://go.aps.org/4zOzBud

08/31/2026

A vibrating glass of water can produce beautiful standing waves. Add a dense layer of Styrofoam beads, though, and the surface can do something much stranger.

Researchers found that changing the vibration frequency and amplitude can make the beads behave like molecules in a solidifying glass — or form waves that push surrounding beads away and create large cavities.

Read the new study in Physical Review Fluids: https://go.aps.org/3SIcyAy

08/30/2026

In August 1998, deep underground in Japan, scientists found evidence that neutrinos change from one type to another.

The Super-Kamiokande detector, watching for these ghost particles, caught something strange: Far fewer muon neutrinos arrived from below — after traveling through Earth — than from directly overhead. In other words, they had changed midflight.

The finding showed neutrinos have mass, overturning a longstanding assumption in physics. Read the full story in : https://go.aps.org/4qDbBpD

08/28/2026

“The threat to our future economic prosperity and national security is very real.”

Julia Phillips was abruptly dismissed from the National Science Board in April, along with every other member. But she’s not done speaking up.

In , Phillips discusses what the loss of the Board means for U.S. science — and why she believes the country needs to act quickly to protect its scientific leadership: https://go.aps.org/4xUmKVm

08/27/2026

The cryptography securing today's cryptocurrencies may be more fragile than assumed.

A new analysis in PRX Quantum updates the resource estimates for breaking Bitcoin and Ethereum's underlying elliptic curve cryptography with a quantum computer, and the numbers keep shrinking. It maps out which wallets and blockchain features are most exposed and weighs mitigation strategies.

Read more: https://go.aps.org/4wHJkzA

08/26/2026

It’s . Drop an emoji to tell us what physics phenomenon your dog is:

🌀 Chaotic system — zoomies at unpredictable intervals
⚡ Kinetic energy — has never walked anywhere
🌡️ Thermodynamic system — permanently seeking the warmest spot in the house
🌊 Wave function — appears whenever food is opened
🪐 Orbital mechanics — follows you from room to room

08/25/2026

Researchers have teleported a 100-pixel image at once using quantum entanglement, rather than teleporting the pixels one by one.

An all-optical setup lets the receiver rebuild all 100 points of light simultaneously, and the result beat the classical fidelity limit. It's a promising step toward quantum networks that can move complex information, not just single bits.

Read more in Physical Review Letters: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/rfz9-3prw

08/24/2026

Physics has its own version of the United Nations, and APS is about to take on a bigger role in it.

Founded in 1922, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) brings together physicists from nearly 60 countries and territories to foster international collaboration. This October, APS will become the U.S. institutional representative to IUPAP.

Learn more about the organization and its history in : https://go.aps.org/3S20kTa