For international physics students, proposed visa rules could mean added pressure to finish a Ph.D. on a shorter timeline. #APSNews spoke with members of the physics community about what the changes could mean: https://go.aps.org/4yNjtba

A newly discovered double neutron star system passed a test of general relativity. Its short, low-inclination orbit could help astronomers study how it warps spacetime and measure the primary pulsar’s moment of inertia. Read more in @physrevlett.aps.org: https://go.aps.org/4xWM6m7

Physicists know a lot. But what are we surprisingly bad at? 👀 Drop yours below. Bonus points if it’s something you feel like you should be good at. You know, like math.

📣 Thousands of you submitted public comments, and now Congress has delayed implementation of the Office of Management and Budget’s proposed changes to federal grantmaking. But there’s more work to be done. Learn what happens next in #APSNews: https://go.aps.org/3USvPQw

Humans and #AI play chess differently when the tension rises. Researchers mapped the web of attacks and defenses and found that AI sustains complex, highly interconnected positions longer, while humans tend to simplify sooner. Read more in APS Open Science: https://go.aps.org/4dzOVkI

Ants meet head-on on a narrow path. Who turns around? 🐜 A study in Physical Review E shows that when ants meet up while relocating to a new nest, the one bound for the old nest turns back. Game theory suggests this reflects "sampling equilibrium": https://go.aps.org/4iS7zYD

New U.S. visa rules may affect international students, scholars, and the departments that support them. That’s why we’ve created a new toolkit with information and resources on navigating the changes. Check it out: https://go.aps.org/4xQxBjK

Physics sparks connection at #APSSummit27 – across disciplines, across continents, across boundaries. Become a presenter, fuel that spark, and advance the future of physics. 🌟 The call for abstracts, registration, and housing is now open: https://go.aps.org/4xMDmz1

Nominations are open for the inaugural PRX Energy Breakthrough Award. This award honors early-career researchers who have made a substantial breakthrough in renewable and sustainable energy in the past two years. Nominate yourself or a colleague by Oct. 4: https://go.aps.org/4yqnK3M

New in @physrevlett.aps.org: Black hole seeds could have formed during the universe’s “Dark Ages” if gas collapsed directly inside dark matter halos instead of first forming stars — potentially helping explain the abundance of early #SupermassiveBlackHoles. 🔗 https://go.aps.org/4yxgraU

This fall, hundreds of classrooms got hand boilers, infrared thermometers, and volcanic rocks that eat carbon dioxide. It's not a chemistry set, it's this year's free PhysicsQuest kit for teaching climate physics. Read how it came together in #APSNews: https://go.aps.org/4xLt4iA

A new framework maps the collective movement of starfish embryos as topological “flowscapes,” revealing circulating flows, irreversible pathways, and structural transitions that emerge as they self-organize. Read more in @physrevx.aps.org: https://go.aps.org/4r3NH71

Could you build a laser that shoots a high-energy neutrino beam? Two new studies in @physrevlett.aps.org say no. One shows emission can't beat the rate of standard, natural decay; the other finds a Bose-Einstein condensate boost would still fall 16 orders short: https://go.aps.org/4h5RZY3

The results are in! 🎉 Congratulations to our newly elected leaders who will take the helm Jan. 1. Thank you to everyone who voted and to all of the candidates. Meet the winners: https://go.aps.org/4ey5Fau

New U.S. visa rules may affect international students, scholars, and the departments that support them. Join us Sept. 30 from 3 to 4 p.m. ET for a webinar on the new duration of status rule and the resources in available in our policy toolkit: https://go.aps.org/46BITMA

Why does one superhydride outperform its close cousins? A Physical Review B study shows how scandium changes LaSc₂H₂₄’s electronic structure and hydrogen-hydrogen bonds — boosting the interactions that enable superconductivity at high temperatures and pressures: https://go.aps.org/4wYmHqE

We’re excited to share that Ariel Amir has been named chief editor of PRX Life. Ariel is a professor at @WeizmannScience working at the intersection of physics, applied mathematics, and biology to identify the laws that govern living systems:https://go.aps.org/4zOzBud

What happens when you vibrate water covered in Styrofoam beads? In extreme conditions, the beads can behave like molecules in a solidifying glass — or form waves that shove particles aside, opening large cavities. More in Physical Review Fluids: https://go.aps.org/3SIcyAy

This month in #PhysicsHistory: Using Japan's Super-Kamiokande detector, scientists found neutrinos have mass, overturning a longstanding assumption about these “ghost particles.” Read more in #APSNews: https://go.aps.org/4qDbBpD

Julia Phillips was abruptly dismissed from the National Science Board in April, along with every other member. But she’s still fighting for science. She spoke with #APSNews about the stakes for U.S. Science and why we need to act quickly: https://go.aps.org/4xUmKVm

How easily could quantum computers break blockchain cryptography? New estimates show the resources needed keep shrinking, and some transactions could be attacked before they even confirm. More in PRX Quantum: https://go.aps.org/4wHJkzA

🐶 It’s #NationalDogDay! Drop an emoji to tell us what physics phenomenon your dog is: 🌀 Chaotic system — unpredictable zoomies ⚡ Kinetic energy — never walks 🌡️ Thermodynamic system — seeks warmth 🪐 Orbital mechanics — follows you everywhere

A new all-optical scheme teleported a 100-pixel image at once via quantum entanglement, beating the classical fidelity limit. All 100 channels transfer simultaneously instead of one by one — a step toward scalable quantum networks. More in @physrevlett: https://go.aps.org/4gbp98g

This October, APS will become the U.S. institutional representative to @iupap_physics, an international organization founded in 1922 to foster collaboration among physicists worldwide. Read more in #APSNews: https://go.aps.org/3S20kTa

Research published in @physrevlett.aps.org reports new measurements showing how niobium-94 absorbs neutrons — data that helped models reproduce the unexpectedly high molybdenum levels seen in presolar grains: https://go.aps.org/4qvbLj2

Underwater whale tracking led to a surprising discovery: wave interference can make whale calls appear to travel faster than sound. A study in Physical Review E argues light could do the same — without violating Einstein’s theory of general relativity: https://go.aps.org/4g4AmYh

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The moon's surface gets churned by impacts, scrambling its record of ancient supernovae. But a new model — published in @physrevlett — accounts for those impacts and correctly predicts where iron-60 from supernovae sits in Apollo regolith samples. 🔗 https://go.aps.org/4qf2tHs

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The African Network of Women in Astronomy addresses stereotypes in the field and mentors future generations of women in space science to ensure their success. Read more about the organization’s work in the African Physics Newsletter. https://go.aps.org/3yPsg2z